Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...footed baths made for two. Author Dan Brown, who set part of The Da Vinci Code at the nearby Rosslyn Chapel, was so enchanted with his stay a few years ago that he scribbled his signature on a floorboard under a rug in the Armoury suite, then left a cryptic clue leading to it in the guest book. The puzzle has long been solved, but it's a fitting tribute to the Witchery's mysterious charms. www.thewitchery.com
...wildly popular and scenic tourist destination that is advertised with the cryptic statement/question: “Built by a Native American Culture or a migrant European population? No one knows for sure. A maze of man-made chambers, walls and ceremonial meeting places, America’s Stonehenge is possibly the oldest man-made construction in the United States (over 4000 years old).” The mysterious caves and rock formations are supposedly built by both pre-historic and historic people! Take your girlfriend or your parents—Cancun is overrated...
...request but not generally encouraged. The student decided to take his chances and traveled to Harvard in order to argue his case, but with no access to his dean or other administrators until shortly before his hearing, even these attempts at mounting a defense hit a wall amidst a cryptic and seemingly-biased procedure...
...soon to militaries near you). In it, the star of “Cocktail” and “Losin’ It” lauds his church’s ability to ‘improve conditions,’ makes use of a dizzying array of cryptic acronyms, sound effects and apparent neologisms, and laughs maniacally for nearly a minute altogether...
...Beauvoir can no longer defend herself, but I’m tempted to think that she, rather than taking offense at the picture, would have thought it a fitting portrait. After all, she wasn’t so much scandalous as she was mysterious, and what could be more cryptic than turning your back to a curious French public? A feminist who had also mastered the fun of “naughty boy,” Beauvoir may well appreciate this cheeky reminder of her complexity. In it as ever before, much is left unseen, and unsaid. Alice...