Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Hoover last week made his first campaign speech. It was so brief, so quiet that only one newspaper (the New York World) heard about it until the next day. It was in Washington, at a banquet which the 80-odd U. S. Representatives invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute Virginian...
...discovery, by the investigating Senators, that Albert D. Lasker, opulent Chicago advertising man, intimate of President Harding's and onetime (1921-1923) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, gave $26,000 to the Harding campaign fund in 1920, $1,000 of which was recorded and $25,000 kept secret...
...Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
...fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets goes up, at night, for a last and tragic parade. Confused, threatening, alive, these sounds sift into the shadowed room which is the stage; a room in which there has been caught, by some soft and secret charm of writing, by the clever playing of Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney, the intimate mystery of the past...
...Secret Hour. There is no denying the cinemart of Pola Negri, but it is a shame to see her put into cotton stockings and handing out coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack...