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...paper on the "K-effect" as yet unpublished, Miss Pishmish declined to explain the cryptic phrase. Her work here, in the Milton Bureau investigating variable stars was no better defined...
...content with the protection of his cryptic shorthand when he confided his amours to his diary, Pepys added further screens by making up a pidgin language of French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college...
Monastic also is Mrs. Ames's talent for smelling out incipient romances, nipping them with subtle but insistent notes. A young novelist, for example, may imagine that his walk with a poetess has gone unobserved. But next morning both parties are pretty sure to receive a cryptic note: "It is unwise to form youthful attachments," or "Sorry you missed an interesting discussion in the parlor." Yaddo is not bothered by rumors that it is a free-love colony. Nonliterary, nonartistic wives and husbands are not usually invited to Yaddo with their mates. Married artist-couples and their children...
...Alfred, he got a slightly hunted look, had to be captured by his mother and held firmly by the shoulder to be interviewed. As cryptic as a surrealist in explaining his art, Alfred said he just painted whatever popped into his head. When asked how it happened, in his painting of a devil, that the crimson body wore black tights but the horns were white, he said darkly, "Maybe he fell in the snow...
...thing, the X-particle was given a name instead of a cryptic designation. The name is barytron, which means "heavy particle" and was suggested by Dr. Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim of Duke University. The name has already found official favor, seems likely to stick...