Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian injunction to love one's neighbor still stands. . . . The Evangelical conscience is most heavily burdened by the fact that there are still concentration camps in Germany that describes itself as a country in which Justice is administered; and that the measures and actions of the State secret police are exempt from any judicial control. . . . Even a great cause, if it places itself in opposition to the revealed will of God, must finally bring the people to ruin. . . . He [Hitler] is vested with the dignity of the National Priest, and even of the Mediator between God and the People...
Kindly President Miklas fared even worse, had to stand for a whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against...
...Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge. Fortunately for Spain's Leftist Government, loyal officers knew where most of them were...
...wasn't the only athlete to break training rules or stay up after the curfew sounded. There were at least a hundred offenders. . . . [Why] condemn me because I was unwilling to make a secret of the fact that I like champagne. . . . Officers accompanying the team who were presumed to be setting a good example . . . failed to do so. Cocktail parties were a nightly occurrence...
Carrie Belle Wilson, daughter of a choir-leader, turned out her first anthem, He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place, at 16. She had already grown to love Allyn Groves Adams, 23-year-old bass in a Paris, Ill. church choir. They married when she was 21 and Mr. Adams went into the hominy business. In 1906 Carrie Belle Adams became associate editor of the Choir Herald, for which she has since written an article or an anthem every month, year in, year out. Her total output: 4,000 compositions, has made more money from high-school operettas and church...