Word: decipherability
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... If Mrs. Edison answered her husband's proposal of marriage by saying -[TIME, April 26], she was using gibberish which even the genius of Edison could not decipher.
Died. Robert Burns Mantle, 74, retired dean of Manhattan drama critics (his prestigious yearly anthology of Best Plays covers every Broadway season from 1899 to 1947); of cancer; in Forest Hills, L.I. A newspaper typesetter in 1896, Burns Mantle was once unable to decipher a critic's longhand review...
With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he...
For a starter, we had the names & addresses of our 418 pre-war French subscribers. Our Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals...
To me it seems a simple duty for all Westerners to meet them in a benevolent spirit, to try hard to understand their motives, and to decipher their words and deeds in the best sense we can. Very much is in the game for everybody, and for us in Europe...