Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secret sect which claims to understand the mysteries of Nature; founded in Europe...
...public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
...mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when a maid, by performing runic rites in the woodland, may catch a glimpse of her future husband. Ravishing Aelfrida (Florence Easton) comes upon the royal emissary. They fall in love at once. Aethelwold keeps the real purpose of his errand a secret, marries the beauty himself, sends word to the King that she is neither passing fair nor lustrous but meet spouse for one, who, like himself, is without earthly possessions?"sparing the king's love...
...resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville's most intimate affairs, the keeper of the Jigger Shop, knew...
Stigma. Last year when they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor...