Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday morning late in January, six men bent upon a secret errand slipped into the empty, silent offices of Cosmopolitan Magazine in Manhattan. Doors were locked, keys turned. Thus barricaded against intrusion, Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan sat down with five excited assistants to examine the "dummy" of their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind...
...Cosmopolitan had to be distributed throughout the land to wholesalers and retailers without the nature of its leading article being made public. All leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features to come, Editor Long announced that the leading article of the April Cosmopolitan...
...handle the larger issues satisfactorily. After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests of these powers are bound to make themselves felt. The minorities, at least, are convinced that there is little to be hoped for from the secret pourparlers of the leading statesmen. In 1926 Germany was admitted to the League and given a seat on the Council, and it was expected by the German minorities that Germany would take the lead and press the question. Germany has, in fact, come to be looked upon as the champion...
...affirmative speakers maintained that any sort of repression of freedom of speech would ultimately lead to rebellion, for it would drive agitators to use secret and unlawful means for the propagation of their ideas...
...open secret," said Octavio Seigle, fingering a neat butterfly tie, "that opponents of the government who disappear from Havana are taken to the Cabana fortress next to Morro Castle, and fed to the man-eating sharks of the harbor...