Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before eight, one morning, secret service men leapt from the path of an automobile that whizzed up the driveway. Secretary of Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
...failed even to note the astute Marquis's occasional late suppers with Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain, after which the Marquis occasionally remained until near dawn. Last week an explanation of these curious developments was at last forthcoming: the Spanish and Italian Foreign Offices announced briefly that a secret treaty of arbitration between Spain and Italy had been negotiated and signed at Madrid...
What are the terms of this avowedly secret treaty? The signatory powers contented themselves with a cryptic announcement: "The Treaty will be made public when it is registered with the League of Nations," an event which may perhaps be delayed indefinitely...
...omened effects of secret treaty-making were demonstrated again last week by a flood of rumors containing dire hints of secret "war clauses." Though everyone knows that secrecy between nations breeds misunderstandings and wars, the Fascist Tribuna declared in an exultant editorial: "Following the good old method of secret diplomacy, a solid contribution to post-war European pacification has been achieved...
...Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here, for instance, is a despatch announcing the year-old secret marriage of John Hayes Hammond Jr.: "When confronted, the Spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed to the match...