Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision reached at the secret meeting was, of course, not published; but the main question discussed, it was understood, was that of the rival claim of Prince Wizamosky, who says he is a direct descendant of Ivan the Terrible...
...Likeness to the Holy Alliance. "A hundred years ago there existed a league of nations in Europe, the Holy Alliance, which finally came under the control of the cunning and able master of secret diplomacy, Metternich, of Austria. . . . Metternich, finally in absolute control of the league of nations of that day, definitely announced its policy no different from the policy now announced by our Government. Revolution by a long suffering people in Piedmont Metternich ruthlessly stamped out with the armed forces of his league...
...understand how she got the reputation of being ill-natured or cold-hearted (there were some, in the old days, who used to say so), for surely in my experience she was never that. . . . And then?can I forget the day when I learned that she, too, in her secret way, had been thinking tenderly of Me? She sent me word (the darling) that she had come to the conclusion that our friendship might be put upon quite a different footing. . . . I came to see her. . . . And then her familiar and gracious charm had its way with...
What is a secret? Representative John Nance Garner, Democrat, of Texas, declared that nothing was a secret which was printed in The New York Times, the Chicago Daily Tribune and The New York Commercial. Therefore he objected that the text of Secretary Mellon's bill for tax reduction was kept "secret" by the Ways and Means Committee...
...Think of a committee working in secret on a great tax bill, when the Secretary of the Treasury has already told practically all that is in it. Suppose somebody had got hold of this bill and tried to sell it to a private interest. A lot of money could have been made...