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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Laddie Boy, 9, Airedale beloved of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding; of old age and an abscess in the ear; in New tonville, Mass., at the home of Secret Service Man Harry L. Barker, who had been his master since the death of President Harding. Laddie Boy preferred sugar and cream in his coffee. He was a half-brother of President Coolidge's dog, Laddie Buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...overt act could be established. It was all picayune, absurd. The trio was released, though not without Secret Service men in train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover in Miami | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Like other human beings, Senators are more interested in themselves than in anything else. Thus debate on great public affairs was delayed during most of two days last week while Senators argued as to whether they could keep a secret. For, early in the week, some Senator had let out a great Senatorial secret. So far out had the secret got, that it was published in all newspapers served by the United Press. The press hero was United Pressman Paul Mallon, who trained in the Notre Dame journalistic tradition, would never reveal a secret he was not entitled to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Secret Case of Mr. West | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Somehow Pressman Mallon had secured a complete list of the Senators as they had voted in secret session for or against the appointment of Roy O. West to the dynamite-loaded job of Secretary of the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Secret Case of Mr. West | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...name the 54 Senators who voted for Mr. West and the little band of only 27 who voted against. The Senate was scandalized. Vice President elect Curtis, Senate housekeeper that he is, investigated all the servants (clerks, etc.) and pronounced that none of them had given away the secret. Only one alter native: some Senator had "snitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Secret Case of Mr. West | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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