Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, well informed that Footballer Key's spurious status was long an open secret on U. C. L. A.'s campus, is impressed not with maliciousness or gullibility but with the current vogue of undergraduate cynicism toward amateur purity (see below...
...previous years: on every driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...
...victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane by the threat of shattering international disclosures concerning the Drake Estate. Later the story was that Messrs. Hoover, Mellon and Mills, "representing...
Certain great universities of the western world are older than any of the world's existing governments. The secret of their unfailing vitality is that they attract to themselves and again send forth into the community men who care about ideas and ideals. They are the special guardians of the nation's cultural heritage. They are the places to which the intellectual leadership of a democracy must always resort for inspiration and training. They are centers of intellectual independence and progress, radiating a profound and immeasurable influence on the character and development of the nation...
...Personal Maid's Secret" with Margaret Lindsay and Ruth Donnelly has a couple of scenes that are really swell. It has, though, the perennial child-one that materially strengthens our conviction that infant movie actors should all be drowned. Incidentally the maid's secret is just what we suspected. It is pleasant not to be disappointed...