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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail-shooting in Virginia . . . Turkey-shooting in Georgia . . . and then one day he pressed a White House button and scampered away, chuckling boyishly at the seriousness of secret service men. It is not impossible that Calvin Coolidge gave the electric hobbyhorse a tickle in the ribs just before it was packed up and shipped to Northampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Coolidge Era | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dismal Depression Develops Dazzling Desires in Lampy's Major Domo--Bob Reveals Secrets of Life on Anniversary | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at the point of recovery, when recovered by the defensive team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE FUMBLES RULED OUT BY COMMITTEE'S DECISION | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

...Correspondents learn that, in addition to lunching, the delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Significance. If Rumania actually did receive a secret assurance that Soviet Russia has renounced her claims to Bessarabia, that was the biggest news in Europe last week. Secrecy may well have been necessary, in order to give the Soviet Government time in which to break gently to Soviet citizens, school children and map makers the news that Bessarabia has been in Rumania for the last eleven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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