Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon. He will discuss his "Experiences in Secret Service and Detective Work," and the lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
Detective Burns was for many years a member of the United States Secret Service, and in this capacity he secured the evidence which convicted a large and powerful gang of counterfeiters. While employed by the government, he also discovered the land frauds in the Department of the Interior...
...forced to marry a repulsive young nobleman in order to gratify her father's social ambitions. After the marriage, she fell in love with Robert de Chaceroy, and when he loses his fortune and his honor by gambling, tries to pay his debts for him. Her father forces the secret of her love from her, and in order to save the reputation of his family offers to advance the necessary sum. He insists on the separation of Robert and Helene; Robert declares this is impossible, and just as Helene is securing the money from a banker, shoots himself...
Madame Simone makes the most of her two "big" scenes--one where her father forces her secret from her and the other where she discovers Robert's suicide. The artistic restraint as well as the emotional power of her acting deserve the highest praise. And mention must be made of Mr. Corrigan (the father) and Mr. Arden (Robert). Each was unusually successful in an unusually difficult part. Credit, too, should be given to the translator of the play the English version has little of the "importedfrom-France" atmosphere. Altogether, not a play for post-examination revels, but for the serious...
...Secret practice was held during the week before the Princeton game-and though a hard fight was expected, there seemed to be no reason to expect anything else than a victory. The weather conditions which proved so disastrous at West Point were not provided against, and the field was a veritable duck-pond. The keepers came in for not a little condemnation for the apparent carelessness in not using the sand, of which there was so much on hand...