Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
Executive (secret) doings of the Senate are constantly leaking into the newspapers. And last week, the Senate's wives demonstrated that they were no better than their husbands at keeping secrets...
...President Cabrera sent Assassin Jiron to the U. S. on a secret mission. His instructions included going to Mt. Vernon and piously laying a wreath on George Washington's Tomb...
Matsuyama's beady eyes watch every move his rivals make in tournament play. From a mental pigeonhole he was able, last week, to draw the information that Horemans was weak only in open-table play. The discovery of this secret defeated the champion...
...Doctor's Secret (Paramount) is Sir James M. Barrie's one-act play Half an Hour done as a talking-picture which sticks to the original script in all respects except that Barrie's play ran the time specified by its title whereas The Doctor's Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi...