Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spreading of these stories, plus the revival of the old one about Miss Negri's Jewish blood, caused Handsome Adolf to burst into tears. Sobbed he: "The slanderers! The slanderers!" Later he was reported to have sent secret agents to Poland to prove once and for all Pola Negri's Aryan ancestry...
...spring in Cuba, and last week there were many rustling signs of spring among Cuba's politicians. As the buzzards wheeled lazily by day and the business life of Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo...
Jean Murat, who plays the role of Captain Benoit, a French Secret Service agent, steals valuable German plans and is out for more when the Prussian staff puts pretty Erna Flieder (Vera Korene of the Comedie Francaise) on his trail. After getting what he wants by posing as a banker, he flees Germany with an innocent post-mistress whom he had beguiled in order to carry out his plan...
...heels, Erna seduces Colleret, an adjutant in the French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...
...Stalin fortnight ago got after the long-time chief of his Secret Police, dread Genrikh Yagoda (TIME, April 12). Whether or not Yagoda was squealing confessions under pressure of Ogpu third degree last week, the State in its newsorgans suddenly foamed with rage about Yagoda, using "Russian words rarely encountered outside the Government decrees of the time of Peter the Great, causing general wonderment as to the nature of the crime," according to able Herald Tribune Moscow Correspondent Joseph Barnes...