Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ossining, N. Y., hard by famed Sing Sing Prison, Secret Servants pounced on a counterfeiting plant primed to turn out $2,000,000 worth of $10 and $20 bills...
...with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit to force the Treasury to keep his slip secret...
...flyers used to wear baggy plus fours of assorted tweeds and gaudy sports sweaters when Germany's air army was really secret. After Hitler became Chancellor they changed to a "grey blue uniform, purely civilian." Last week, like caterpillars bursting out of greyish skins, German air officers sprouted into Reichswehr slate blue, their short Nazi "dirks of honor" lengthening into swords...
...Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia...
...days later secret police came to the worker's room at night and took him away, with no word of explanation to his wife...