Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
Later, politicians drew from General Hayashi the significant admission that, after the bribe receipt was found, nothing was done except to discipline a certain Major Tanaka, apparently because he blabbed the secret to members of the Young Officers League. These naive hotheads, not realizing that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...
...treasures fecundity, by traveling as Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee. "Of course," she gleefully boasted soon as she was beyond his reach: "I did not get into Rome. But I managed to hold many private meetings on birth control. In Venice and Milan I had more demand for secret lectures before women's clubs than I could supply...
Abortions. A potent Sanger argument for unrestricted use of contraceptives is that women who do not want babies resort to secret abortions. She estimates that 4,000,000 U. S. women have themselves | aborted each year. Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig of St. Louis, President Hoover's special investigator of the subject, puts the number at 700,000.* Probably 15,000 U. S. women die each year on account of faulty abortions...
...that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them to any one he pleased. Any composer, living or dead, should...