Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afraid to trust loose-tongued civilian labor, the French General Staff last week had French and Senegalese soldiers at work completing la patrie's chain of super-secret frontier defense works among the forests of Alsace and the Moselle. Just as the new secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping planes would...
...case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only for the name plates from his box and office doors, for the secret desk panel in which he used to hide his seasons' plans...
...great when he is investigating a subject. When he was studying improvements in the U. S. parliamentary system, he learned French in order to verify a translation from de Tocqueville. So that his constituents cannot interrupt his studies, he keeps his home address in Washington to himself, has a secret office in the old House Office Building with a door that cannot be opened from the outside...
Month ago Yugoslavian editors flayed Hollywood for misrepresenting the Balkans' trains de luxe in the cinema Orient Express, scare-headed AMERICAN FILM LIES ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (TIME, April 1). Last week the Yugoslavian Government suppressed as long as possible a secret which finally leaked out: for the first time any Yugoslav could remember since the War, the mail car of the Orient Express had been robbed...
...police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes him, as long as he lives, Valjean's Nemesis. When they meet again years later, Valjean is the beneficent mayor of a prosperous provincial town. But that makes no difference to Javert who ferrets out the secret of the mayor's past and forces him to escape to Paris where their last encounter comes several years later. This time, Valjean, regenerated a second time, is setting out to rescue the sweetheart of his adopted daughter from a not. Javert, an old man now, recognizes him just...