Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 1927, when dilution began, True Story promised much, gave little. On its cover was a colored picture of a voluptuous-looking woman with hair down, shoulders bare except for a hint of negligee. The story titles included "The Price of Secret Love," "The Treacherous Kiss," "My Terrible Mistake," "My Reckless Romance," and even more urgent subtitles. But, though the number of thwarted seductions increased alarmingly, there were only two successful ones. This issue also contained a page bearing the legend...
...secret of a beautiful book was lost until William Morris, a great student and designer of books, revived the art. He started the experiment by founding the "Kelmscott Press" in 1891. Many other presses such as the "Ashendene Press," "Doves Press," "Kelmscott Press," "Essex House Press," and in this country the "Merrymount" and "Riverside Presses," were founded soon afterward...
...make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...
Item: One secret cabinet in the fireplace guarded by a snake, poisonous...
...guards ran through the circle of prisoners and separated the two men who were fighting. William Reid was panting and furious. "Red" Moran, seriously wounded, looked at the men around him with the amazed, pitiful expression of a man who has just learned a hideous secret. He lifted his hand and pointed at William Reid. "He stabbed me," Thomas Moran whispered to the guard...