Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room, much larger than the old. big enough to accommodate a meeting of the 34 members of the National Emergency Council. Then he passed through a new corridor in which was a stairway leading to the floor below and a side entrance. The stairway was supposed to be a secret exit for Presidential callers who did not want to be stopped and quizzed by the Press in the main lobby. It remained a secret for about two hours. That same afternoon Secretary of War Dern arrived publicly for a conference, departed privately by the stairs. When newshawks failed...
...adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, known to the whole Roosevelt family as "Missy." She, too, was smiling. In fact everyone was pleased with the new offices except the Secret Service men. Chubby-cheeked Richard Jervis, chief of the detail which has been guarding the lives of Presidents since the McKinley assassination (1901), and his able assistant. Colonel Edward Starling, were more than a little worried by all the entrances provided to the President's office. But he was not worried...
...more interested was Washington in the doings of 500 official and newspaper women left behind. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited them to a masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant in the red and gold of a Rumanian peasant, Mrs. Roosevelt greeted each guest at the door of the East Room. After balloting for most original and clever costumes, there were songs, skits, supper?all, like the highjinks...
...months Mrs. Julie Neumann, director of Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School, had been bursting with a great secret. Last fortnight when she read of "K," the prodigy with an I. Q. of 196 discovered by the College of the City of New York (TIME, Dec. 3), she could contain herself no longer, revealed that one of her pupils, "X," had been graded 230. But just as jealous as Mrs. Neumann was Mrs. Winifred Travis, chairman of the Parents' Association of Public School 217. X, she declared, had been at the Ethical Culture School only three months, was really...
DANCE GIRL WHO DIED WITH SECRET...