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...bookings, relay telephone messages, give them a place to sit around and wait between jobs, and collect 10% of their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook, trying to look like the advertisers' cryptic specifications ("We need the soap and motherhood type"). By great good fortune she may land a movie contract.† But in most cases, she will achieve a glamourous life only in the ads she poses...
...almost two weeks, Chicago had been breaking out in a rash of cryptic signs: "KOVD." The letters were stenciled in red on Loop sidewalks. They flowered 10,000 feet overhead in sky writing and billboards showed them painted on a giant boxing glove. The city's Health Department was getting a message to Chicagoans: KNOCK OUT VENEREAL DISEASE...
...begin an indefinite stay at home. Among other things he wanted to consider the case of an unidentified man who had left a sealed manuscript at his office with instructions that it was not to be opened without permission. During the weeks at home, Zoe fortified him with such cryptic postcard messages as "Quit biting your nails" and "I suggest you do more knitting." But Richard was up to more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time...
...that isn't all. At present, if the student manages to pry his bluebook from a Department, he finds only his grade on the cover and a lot of cryptic figures in the margins. Unless he can persuade the instructor to go over the examination with him, he still has no way of knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section...
Taking off on vacation last month, the society gossip columnist of the Washington Times-Herald dashed off a cryptic farewell to her readers: "When I get back I'll be a CHANGED woman...