Word: secreter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without a heel-click, Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced, the Nazi secretaries...
...British and French secret services did not know all this they were not worth their pay. That they did know it and did report it was made fairly evident at week's end when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, badgered by Parliament for being taken by surprise by Herr Hitler's coup, blurted out that he had known something was in the wind as early as the Saturday before the Wednesday of the grab. He also said he had reported it to the British...
Then a new problem arose. Unless he paid the safe deposit rent regularly, the company would open the box and find the bombs. Having no key, he could not remove them in secret. The price of safety was $10 box rent annually. So for 21 years he paid blackmail to the devil in cash. Even so his secret was not safe. This winter the safe deposit company decided to move. He could do nothing. So finally Reinhold Faust's box was duly opened. Having heard this story, Municipal Court Judge Matthew D. Hartigan freed Reinhold Faust...
Still tense and tingling is Odets' study of a bewildered, frustrated, dreaming, moodily rebellious Bronx family, caught in economic toils like wet fish in a net. Secret of the play's power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts...
...Waterman Steamship Corp. Shrewd, well-liked, he rose rapidly to traffic manager, then to vice president. But he was not happy in his job, and meanwhile he had been making a reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary earnings, increased rapidly. In 1933 appeared a War novel, Company K; in 1936 his powerful novel of Georgia mill hands, The Tallons...