Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jefferson secret is a formula for making a new kind of steel; hard;as diamond, more durable. Young Donald Jefferson has charge of the formula when it disappears. Who could have stolen it? Could Miss Eames? Miss Eames, 42, diverts the passion Donald continually flings at her head so that she may marry his father. Could Bobbie Blaydes? Bobbie, Jefferson senior's old friend, is a social man, a person who plays around with many people for amusement; he knows nothing about steel, cares less. Could Jenny Carlton? Jenny, characterized as "a good egg," is Donald's cunning childhood chum...
Last week these two cities had solemn occasion to remember Mother Mary Magdalene. For now has begun the secret "trial" to determine whether she was worthy to be made a saint. After the proceedings and findings of that trial have been reported to the Vatican, the Pope may announce her beatification, then her canonization...
This dire plan for the conquest of Canada was not the only secret information which the newspaper with a Heart discovered last week. This other warning was printed on the front page...
...complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle that the romantic French press and public lost interest in the entire business...
...Well in advance, Lucrezia Bori scanned the countryside, found a house to fit her artistic requirements in fashionable Lake Forest. Bori operas: La Rondine, L'Amore del Tre Re, Mignon, La Vida Breve, The Secret of Suzanne...