Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumors attacking the President, by the flood of crank letters which go to the White House. The actual number of these letters is not of public record but the best evidence that it has gone beyond all previous highs is the precaution, wholly unequalled in other administrations, which the Secret Service takes to protect the President on all occasions. Certainly no President in recent times has so bitterly aroused the enmity of a whole class as Franklin Roosevelt has aroused the economically substantial element of the U. S. Regardless of party and regardless of region, today, with few exceptions, members...
...often been complained of in the past that the Student Council is aloof from the general sentiments of the student body. It has been indicated as a cabal, working at exotic measures in secret conclave, responsible only to an apathetic electorate, which has no continuity of thought over a period of weeks, much less from year to year...
...action seems to center about the infant Peter and since the management has requested that the child's secret be kept from an eager public it is rather difficult to say much about the plot. Finessing the harrowing details this column will consider its duty done when it announces that the story is long in telling, poorly paced and so skillfully constructed that the climax comes at the end of the first act, thus making the ensuing two acts dependent upon the customary dramatic devices such as inexplicable flashes of lightning and a series of unexpected entrances. The most interesting...
...secret Chinese agreement with Russia would put a quietus on the Nationalist Government's none too successful campaign against Chinese Communists in the Central provinces, release thousands of well-equipped troops for use against Japan in the North. Even more important than military advantage to Russia would be the possibility of cutting into the rich Chinese markets now held by Japan and Britain. Reports of the military alliance were last week quickly followed by a rumor that the U. S. S. R. and China were dickering over a commercial agreement...
...Henry's wife thought they disliked each other heartily, little by little they changed their minds. Almost before Julian knew it, he was her lover. He hated the deception, hated her caution that would not leave a comfortable respectability to run away with him. When Henry discovered their secret Julian found that he hated her and she him. Relieved to be getting away from the whole thing and off to college, he 'sternly decided to have nothing more to do with women...