Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walking in the shopping district of the Capital, the President observed an elderly blind man groping his way through the traffic. He went to him directly, instructed a secret service man to see the blind man across the street in safety, and followed to see that it was well done...
...League Covenant of Article XVIII, whereby League-Member-States are obliged to deposit all their international treaties and agreements with the League Secretariat, which is likewise obliged to make them public as soon as possible. Mr. Wilson considered the establishment of this practice a virtual death blow at "secret diplomacy...
...locomotive draped in black drew the funeral train to London and, as it was desired to avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered into King's Cross, and although all haste was made in transferring the coffin to the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace, where the body was to rest over night, a crowd of some 1,500 persons gathered before the auto-hearse before the royal motors could be got under...
...protest against "the employment of police-spies to ferret into the affairs of the accused"; and charged that political factors had motivated the actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal or Socialist...
...sprinkling of Russian Communists, a lone detective and an official of the French Foreign Office. Long after his train drew in, the little man remained seated in his compartment. When the crowd of travelers had quite cleared away, he stepped nimbly forth and was whirled away to a secret conference with M. Herriot and M. Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour...