Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature. At 31 they sent him to Congress. At 35 he left Congress to become New Jersey's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. How. despite a Democratic landslide elsewhere, he captured New Jersey for the Republicans in an off year election for the first time since 1907 is no secret. In his first three months as Motor Vehicle Commissioner he voided 500 licenses for drunken driving. He made speeches every day. In the last campaign alone he rolled up a total of over 600 speeches...
Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...
...secret that the family has not been at all happy of late. Not until the enactment of the "Lindbergh Law" in 1932 did Federal law officers enter importantly into the national crime picture. Only eight months ago were Department of Justice agents authorized to carry guns. Soon these same agents, a small, picked, apparently incorruptible band, were making a strong bid for national attention and admiration. Their swift comings & goings all over the country furnished romantic news stories. They showed themselves mightily effective in rounding up kidnappers, pinking public enemies. Score to date: 74 kidnappers convicted, 20-odd gangsters killed...
Died. John Elbert Wilkie, 74, vice president of Chicago Railways Co., longtime chief of U. S. Secret Service; of heart failure; in Chicago. Appointed in 1898, he directed counter-espionage during the Spanish-American War, continued to serve as head of the service until...
Shirin (pronounced "Sheereen") was the child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful...