Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second story on Princeton, the Trib hit Rhodes Scholars for "influencing public opinion on Britain's behalf." Founder Cecil Rhodes "plotted the idea of a secret society to extend British rule to recapture America for the king...
...plot can hardly be called revolutionary. A man is trying to murder his fabulously rich wife, and using a combination of hypnosis, poison, and George Couloris to turn the trick. Naturally he is conducting a Secret Amour with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...
...find freedom as long as he is moored to society by responsibilities and to fellow men by emotions? Or is it accessible only when he rips himself away from all human entanglements to burrow in the dark and secret catacombs of consciousness...
...Senate, and the Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees of the House met in joint session, and, by chance, arrived at the same $6,000,000,000 figure as the feasible size of the cut. This decision was made by twenty members of the joint committee, meeting in secret, and imposed on the rest of the membership...
...life are accompanied and paralleled by the events of the Civil War period. His marriage to Susanna takes place at the time of John Brown's execution. Their child is born on the night after the cannonade against Fort Sumter. Then Johnny learns Susanna's secret: she fears her mother was not the woman her father married, but his mistress, a handsome mulatto. During the days of Gettysburg, her mind finally gives way and she burns down the house, killing her child...