Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writings of undergraduates. The stories and impressionistic essays have in common, despite these differences in style and way of looking at things, a certain exultation in discovery, in discovery of new aspects of sensation, of new quirks of character, of newly-balanced phrasings. This is, of course, the secret of all good writing; and the prose in this issue of the Monthly is unqualifiedly good writing. It is well diversified, too; a pictorial essay, three stories of character, a short sketch and an intensely vivid study of a young artist's mind. There are no stories of the washed...
...fulfill these requirements are enrolled here and sent to the navy yard for physical examination, to take the oath, and to draw uniforms. They are then ordered here for active duty. The instruction is on radio apparatus, tactical signals, and code practice. The handling of secret code work will also be taken up. As soon as the men become familiar with these things and proficient as operators, they will be ordered to patrol boats and coastal stations in the Boston district for radio work...
...aviation service, some in the Aviation Section of the Reserve Officers' Signal Corps, and some in the training school at Squantum. Several others are on the reserve list of this school and expect to get called at any time. Four men from 1920 are in the United States Secret Service and six are enlisted in state militias...
...main difficulty with dramatizing a popular novel of the type of "The Masquerader" is that your audience knows your secret before the curtain rises. Moreover, in the case of "The Masquerader" it is scarcely necessary to have read the book to know how the play will end. So if you are a young playwright like Mr. John Hunter Booth, the only thing that will save so innocent and helpless an offspring is dialogue, atmosphere, distinction, what you will. Mr. Booth's solution is evidently anticlimax. There is one end at the end of Act 2; another at the beginning...
Again, every one who inquires impartially into the fundamental causes underlying modern wars is struck by the fact that in almost every case a nation declares hostilities, not in self-defence or to ward off invasion, but in the secret interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will...