Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches asserted that a switchboard-operator serves all the de luxe sleeping compartments. She establishes the actual connection with other trains or with stations through a "wired-wireless" telephone instrument of allegedly new and secret construction. Telephone engineers noted that "train wireless" has been possible as a stunt for a decade or more. They learned with interest that the new German invention is said to have leaped into "paying popularity...
...little was accomplished except agreement on some minor points. On the second day the debate was so bitter that it was not until late in the evening that the two sides were able to agree even on the usual statement of what had taken place (the meetings are secret...
...Venice, Milan and Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden...
Owing to the holidays we were unable to say a word of praise last week for "Three Faces East" which was a bully good secret service picture. That sort of thing is apt to be either very obvious or very much involved in movie form, but the almost perfect acting of Clive Brooke and Jette Gondal made this famous stage success tremendously exciting...
...Significance. Observers were inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between...