Word: crypticly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink anything stronger than ginger ale. As for official misconduct on the part of the Governor or bribery on the part of Lobbyist Dickerson, the records proved little. Digging into the jumble of verbiage, the closest thing to actual evidence of corruption that anyone could find was a cryptic statement by a State Senator from Pueblo named Tom Dameron made in the course of a singularly unspecific conversation with Lobbyist Dickerson: "When they hear the utilities are paying $50,000 to kill this one what would they...
...returned his questionnaire blank except for the cryptic remark that he was ashamed to be associated with a class which distributed such "stuff" remains the hero of the piece. Questionnaires are harmless articles, fun to fill out. They only become dangerous instruments when taken too seriously...
Last week a diplomatic oracle implicitly trusted by all newshawks, was interviewed on the subject of the van Zeeland trip. From him came but one cryptic sentence...
...slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
...next largest category is the press box. This will held 260 men if the sides are made to bulge a little. Two hundred and fifty men, and men only, because press tickets bear the cryptic message "No Ladies Allowed." Although the official little everyone in the boy in "Reporter" they cannot be classified quite to uniformly...