Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature...
...Constitution for the first time makes the vote of a peasant equal the vote of a townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting, the minutes of which must be signed by all the presiding officers and who will put his name to a paper which the Secret Police, after the election, could construe as evidence of a plot to nominate a "wrecker"? Latest dispatches indicated that nominating procedure, although the election is to be by secret ballot, has generally thus far been at open sessions with Communists present, vigilant to see and report who moves to nominate...
...public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow...
...only begun, it seemed likely that Sir Malcolm's speed record would soon fall, and if it does the details of Captain Eyston's contraption would be released to satisfy the curiosity of the public and provide advertising copy for the manufacturers who contributed to its still secret construction...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...