Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School for the Deaf (where she used to teach); her ginger-colored chow, Tiny...
After much secret and uncertain picking up and putting down, Herbert Hoover fitted ten pegs into ten holes and finally made up his Cabinet. It had been a brain-bullying task and the result, somehow, failed to produce the striking design of supermen and specialists which Mr. Hoover-and the U. S.-had hoped for last November. He had had a surplus of little pegs that would have fallen through the holes, whereas big pegs of individual shapes refused to fit in, even when pushed. But a survey of his handiwork at least brought the new President the consoling knowledge...
...Dutchman from Utrecht, and you read something in the Utrechtsch Provinciaal en Stedelijk Dagblad, you know it must be true. Last week this leading provincial newspaper of the Netherlands shocked the rich burghers of quaint old Utrecht-and shocked Europe-by chargin, that a most nefarious secret military agreement was entered into on July 7, 1927, by France and Belgium (with Great Britain sitting in) and is still in force...
...mere announcement that this informal group exists stirred up such a news flurry that the tycoons, cautious, kept their intentions secret for most of another week, while news-starved correspondents were fed titbit after titbit about what the group was preparing to do. Meanwhile Mr. Morgan ran over to London, as he said, "for a cup of tea"; and various other delegates paid flying visits to their homes. When everyone had gotten back from wherever he had gone...
Baron Revelstoke appeared as rapporteur for his informal group before a secret session of the second Dawes Committee and made an oral statement* understood to be in substance...