Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn., November 21--The Blue squad held a short secret scrimmage today stressing offensive play. The second-string Grey squad provided the opposition as new plays for he Saturday game were gone ever...
...identity of those clients who had made Ivy Lee a millionaire was partly an office secret. Everyone knew about the Rockefellers, and the Pennsylvania Railroad, Ivy Lee's first account, which he held until his death. With the Pennsylvania, Pressagent Lee first applied his theory that a corporation should "take the public into its confidence." He "humanized" tracks and freight rates, dividends and dollars. The idea worked well for Pennsylvania, and even better for Ivy Lee, who came to hear himself called "Physician to Corporate Bodies...
...comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much propaganda ... for my philosophy of life." What that philosophy is he has never, in his 62 years, been able to make clear. But occasionally his cumbersome farrago is punctuated with flashes of insight: "We are all in secret fighting for our sanity...
Second source of the Protocols is an economic romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech...
...back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy secret conference as to whether the Post should continue its bombardment of the Roosevelt Administration...