Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and after a school that had once flourished there. Last week Milton gave a dignified party to celebrate its "150th" anniversary...
...Power. As it had once looked to London and to Rome, the world now looked to the U.S. for hope and leadership. It was an open secret in the rest of the world that 20th Century civilization would be guided in large part by the heart, the wisdom and the power of the U.S. The secret was spread in every foreign newspaper, before every meeting of foreign ministers, repeated sometimes with hope and gratitude, sometimes with sneers and hatred...
...withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
...combination of unquestioning faith and unquestioned freedom of expression resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome...
Amelita Galli-Curci, famed opera star of the '20s, turned up at the Met opening in Los Angeles, surprised a lot of people who had heard little of her for years. Still tiny (shoe size: 2½B) and bubbly at 58, she confided to an interviewer the secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels...