Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't very wise myself, but I'd grown sensible enough to be definitely an coward forever," Bardamn declares. It is here that he plucks at the most vulnerable nervous fibre of the French--the secret doubt of their own courage that arises not from national cowardice but from the memory of the last war with its indescribable weariness, interminable sleeplessness, horror, death, filth and inevitable thousands of mutineers...
...diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota was an ardent member of a super-nationalist secret society known as the Genyosha or Black Sea Society. Its leader, Mitsuru Toyama, now 78, is still politically active, head of the far more formidable Black Dragon Society whose members for the most part are not schoolboys but army officers. Koki Hirota is still his good friend...
Died. Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky, 60, head of OGPU, Russia's Secret Service; after long illness, in Moscow. Died, Blaise Diagne, 61, Senegalese Negro member of the French Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Paris. Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab...
...break up the marriage she has the bride trailed by a detective, accuses her of misconduct with a physician friend. The bride defends her virtue, begs her husband to take her away. Before he can, wicked old Victoria gets her alone, pushes her into a secret treasure-vault where she is left to suffocate. When she is rescued, Victoria entombs herself in the vault, crackling insanely over Van Brett heirlooms...
...were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing-room.' " Her mother's comment: "Drawing-rooms are always tidy." When she was 15 some of her verses, recommended by aged Poet Longfellow, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Otherwise, though she was a voracious reader and secret soliloquizer of stories, she conformed to the easy strictness of her station, making her debut in Manhattan and at 23 marrying Edward Wharton, Boston banker. Her first book, a collaboration with Architect Ogden Codman on The Decoration of Houses (1897), was daringly modern, surprised everybody by being a success. Soon...