Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general public has not yet been taken into the secret of why three American Ambassadors are returning to confer with the White House. Will they discuss Europe? Or the Far East...
...loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy and intricate first novel...
...Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks he is President...
...They also point out the high desirability of increasing the range of our guns because the range of the British fleet in general is 24,000 yards and the range of the American fleet in general is 21,000 yards. (The ranges of Japanese men-of-war are kept secret.) Secretary Denby's announcement, however, puts the matter in abeyance with " the President's approval " until the matter can be placed before Congress...
...never written a failure. That is largely because she respects and knows her tremendous public. Of all our women writers, her attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes...