Word: secret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget Law and is subject to instant dismissal by the President...
...spectator at the trial was the Lord Bishop of Aberdeen, clad in black knee breeches, black gaiters. Another spectator: Edgar Wallace of England, author of many crime books, who said: "It is an open secret in New York that Rothstein was killed by a 'hophead' [narcotics addict] whom he owed an insignificant...
...little King Vittorio Emanuele and his tall white spouse. Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...
...love-affairs, Diana is rarely the one to suffer; and Author Ludwig has so arranged matters that her willing victims, though never forgetful, always forgive. Between diversions, Diana is the capable secret agent and business adviser of canny Millionaire Scherer. Only once is she the cause of tragedy: a duel in which a former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give...
Sued for Divorce. Walter Hill, 45, youngest son of the late great Railroader James J. Hill; by Mrs. Mildred Richardson Hill, onetime chorus girl (No, No Nannette); at Livingston, Mont. Grounds: kept secret. When suing him for divorce two years ago she said he was "wild as the Montana scenery...