Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent overtures from the League have caused Spain to withdraw her threat to withdraw (TIME, April 2). The fact that Brazil's latest note was kept secret by the League for a whole month suggests how many last minute efforts have been made to get Brazil to reconsider...
...been assisted by the present Madame Pilsudska, a woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...
Painter Mattison appeared to be an academician before his time. His was an old-fashioned mythology picture, called Ignis Fatuus. In the painting, there were the nymphs who, according to fable, lured reckless sensation-seekers across the bogs outside of Rome eager to discover the secret of the strange fires that burned upon them. Artist Mattison had included in his composition a man chasing the three false fiery girls. He was clutching at them but his hands were empty, the nymphs were laughing and the man was about to sink down in the bog. The background of the picture...
...jealous of the birds, though he has already learned to fly many times faster. Determined to learn their secret, Leonard W. Bonney, wealthy pioneer of the air, grown middle-aged since his first flight with Orville Wright in 1910, caught two seagulls in a steel trap padded with cloth at Mastic, L. I. For three years he studied them, scrutinizing every feather on their bodies...