Word: enigma
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Misjudging Mrs. Smith's appeal at first, reporters described her "throaty voice," her "sinuous and startling attitudes," her "eye-rolling behind her tortoise-shell glasses." Mrs. Smith told nothing in Manhattan. Impressed, newshawks soon got on the right track: "the woman without nerves . . . the enigma woman...
...report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...
When Wozzeck was given in Philadelphia four winters ago, conventional operagoers shuddered at its dissonances, stamped Composer Alban Berg as a stark ultra-modernist who had little regard for beauty. Wozzeck's story was sordid. Its music was an enigma to many, though none denied its power. For six years in his home in Vienna, Composer Berg has been working on a second opera, Lulu. Boston had the first U. S. taste of it last week when Sergei Koussevitzky conducted five symphonic excerpts...
...enigma of the hour, the whereabouts of the band's large drum, was solved last night when the instrument, which was thought to have been borrowed by Yale students, was found resting safely in its usual place in the Dillon Field House. It arrived safely, having been shipped on by authorities of the Yale Athletic Association...
...clock without dial or hands regulates the other University time-pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted...