Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mysterious Stranger. During the naval proceedings last week, a strange man, carrying a small brown bag, slipped past the doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand...
Progress. The parley sessions were held in secret last week, and the absolute maximum of progress attained seemed to be that the U. S. delegates persuaded the British to put off, at least temporarily, discussion apropos of revising the Washington Treaty and to proceed first with negotiation on other points...
...surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have kept the secret as long as she said she had kept it-20 days-and when the announcement was cabled to the U. S. last week, Negro newspapers carnivaled...
Observers thought it certain that Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski must have obtained strong assurances of support from France and Britain. This he did, presumably, at one of the secret sessions last week of the Council of the League of Nations...
...Secret Studio (Olive Borden, Clifford Holland) is a room in the guts of the slums, where Artist Larry Kane paints beauteous model Rosemary with lust in his eye. The hero destroys the painting, thrashes the artist, marries the girl...