Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tableaux were exhibited, burned down. In it gapers could view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret of his invention, which was shortly the subject of a booklet soon translated into...
...seemed to apply to Naziism. Three days later this was amply confirmed when the Pope dispatched to Germany a circular letter so full of dynamite that copies of it had to be delivered to the Reich clergy in the dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read to the faithful the Pope's blunt rejection of Nazi doctrines of "blood and soil" and his sharp protest at Nazi violations of the concordat which the Church "with grave...
Fred McMurray plays a hotblooded political rebel from Virginia with a price on his head and a sword in his belt, who flees north to a romance with a Puritan daughter chaffing at her restrictions. Their secret love--complete with assignations in the woods and kisses in the dark--runs up against some difficulties. Through a mistake a Salem wife becomes jealous, McMurray is kidnapped by sailors which climaxes with the conviction of Miss Colbert herself. The executioner is placing the noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake...
Hince discussed the various techniques of the secret service, pointing out that there was no set formula that could be applied to any case indiscriminately...
...ultimate secret to perfect performance in athletics." Cox stated, "is the relaxation of muscles not used. All the top-notch runners, you will notice, are perfectly relaxed through the shoulders when running. Good form is essential to the runner. And there are times in the continued use of a limb when certain muscles in that limb should be relaxed: the muscles of the lower leg for instance need be contracted only half the time. Fellows that don't relax muscles not in use tie up easily...