Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black jealousy entered the heart of Mr. & Mrs. Sim. By secret messages, carried from Old Barton to The Twigs (now Applewood) by the gardener, they endeavored to entice Edith the General back...
Washington, March 28--The Senate voted today to keep information about the income of every taxpaying citizen a secret between the taxpayer and the government tax officials...
...busy, super-efficient factory at Santa Monica, Calif. have lately been eddying exciting rumors. Whispers were heard of a monster armored air cruiser being built in holy secrecy to make the U. S. top-dog of the Pacific (see col. 2). Fortnight ago part of Donald Wills Douglas' secret got out. To Santa Monica Beach was shipped, in sections, what appeared to be a huge aircraft. Next day when crowds flocked to see it assembled, police and a corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films from snapshotters' cameras...
...While floor brokers amused themselves with a new game (see p. 68) and influential members anxiously discussed the coming elections for president, there was serious business afoot on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Summoned to attend a secret meeting of the public relations committee was Edward L. Bernays, No. 1 U. S. publicist. He had obviously been called in to discuss the vexed question of "reselling" the Stock Exchange to the public. Perhaps, newshawks reasoned, he had been hired to take over that job. When later that day the committee refused to say what had happened...
...found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo of spiritual energy, their stories began to knit together again. Like a beneficent spider Dean Harcourt sat in the midst of things, giving out his potent secret of the desperate flies that came into his parlor. His comforting message: The race of men is what counts, not the individual. Finally even Dr. Endicott got it: "No matter. A few are hurt, here and there. Some fall down, and have to be gathered up. But nothing can stop...