Word: cryptographers
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...family Fitzgerald celebrates is rich in foibles. There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch. There is Wilfred, sympathetic for the workers in the 1926 General Strike, but winsomely envious of a fellow cleric gone off to drive a train. And Ronnie, ever the six-year-old boy who had brought a bunch of fresh-picked flowers to his new mother, always needy for the mothering attention of elegant ladies in great country houses. It was under Lady Acton's affectionate (if platonic) wing that...
...Dewey looked up from the typewritten page. As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light. He made his decision quickly, folded the letter, handed it back. Colonel Carter W. Clarke (in mufti), who had flown from Washington to Tulsa to catch up with Tom Dewey's campaign, went back, his mission uncompleted...
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