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Word: secreter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision and an incommunicable speech, known only to himself and to his peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Most likely to succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors need the money, or 2) some novelists get started and can't stop. Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...SMILER WITH THE KNIFE-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Perilous adventures befall the wife of a private investigator when she agrees to help the British secret service smash a Fascist conspiracy. To an exciting story pseudonymous Author Blake (English Poet Cecil Day-Lewis) adds the fillip of exceptionally good writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in November | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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