Word: secreter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adamsite are almost certain to get a thorough trial. Otherwise, military experts believe, the armies will rely on the half-dozen gases which proved efficient in World War I. Though nobody can deny it with certainty, it does not seem that a terrible "supergas" has been produced in secret because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored...
...around to all these exploits Superman not only has to fly through the air, but to swim faster than a ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...
...scenes and actors of the French Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...
...audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...
Last Christmas Day General Evangeline reached retirement age of 73. Fortnight ago the High Council to choose her successor convened near London. Sessions were secret as the Army's progressive wing launched a full-dress attack to turn it democratic. Snail-like was the push, for the High Council can only elect or oust a General and has no other power to control him. Finally this obstacle was breached by quizzing the candidates, engineering a gentleman's agreement with each of them that "no changes . . . should be promoted by the General elected . . . without the fullest possible consideration...