Word: secret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the ethics of secret voting (see below...
...Secret sect which claims to understand the mysteries of Nature; founded in Europe...
This week's all-talking offering at the Metropolitan. "The Doctor's Secret," is definitely above the average of such productions. The story, founded upon a play by Sir James Barrie, gives Ruth Chatterton the opportunity to turn in one of the best performances of the year. As the wife who is frustrated in an attempt to escape from an unhappy married life, she succeeds in presenting a vivid and subtle characterization. The plot is simple but furnishes the able cast with a very interesting problem in domestic ethics...
...only due to the alertness of Mosco Mucilage, second assistant proctor at the English 99 1-2 examination, that the secret of the Memorial Hall ghost was discovered as soon as it was. Even so it was only barely in time, for symptoms of demoralization had begun to spread throughout the college and a panic might have resulted had the mystery continued much longer...
...much was readily discovered, but the real secret remained unanswered. Was the whole scheme the plot of a lunatic inventor, or was it merely the result of a process of natural selection? No one can ever know, for Mucilage, realizing the danger to humanity and education that would exist if the mechanism were left in existence, burned it part by part in his furnace the same night. As it dissolved into ashes and smoke, there perished with it the first and only Ghost of Memorial Hall...