Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
...Little Tsar Boris III assassins still throw bombs with long sputtering fuses in the good old way. The bombee, if an experienced official, has at least a sporting chance of snuffing out the fuse before explosion happens. Therefore, last week, when a bomb hurtled past Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff as he was entering his house at Sofia and rolled ahead of him down the dark hall, the worst was not necessarily to be feared. . . . Experienced, adept, Chief Ikonomoff did not flee out into the street, but sought to protect his household by darting forward to extinguish the bomb...
...Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which she had built up from 1,500 to 73,000 circulation...