Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George has been developing for several years past, to catch the farmer vote. Further elaboration of the party platform proceeded monotonously and then David Lloyd George jumped up to make his promised keynote attack on Tory foreign policy. His point of savage attack was, of course, the secret Anglo-French naval agreement concluded by Sir Austen Chamberlain just before his nervous breakdown (TIME...
...secret is that I walked with Mary Queen of Scots, last night, here in Jedburgh ! Wherever a Scot may be he always has at least one moment in the day when he leans against the nearest object and thinks of Mary Queen of Scots. That's our romantic secret...
Whizz! Half a dozen French bicycle police scooted up, with mustaches bristling, and surrounded a small, inoffensive U. S. roadster. With screeching breaks a large limousine drew up also, and out hopped several excited agents of the Surete General (Secret Service). Cried a Surete plain clothes man to the occupant of the roadster: "Are you M. Harold Horan, representative of M. Guillaume Randolph Hearst...
...hours. They refused him a lawyer, refused to let him telephone, and only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...
...understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...