Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said she. "I am sure she cannot be a spy, Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play on the city streets." ¶In peace or in war all nations employ spies-more often to discover prosaic matters of policy than to hunt out exciting military secrets. The U. S. State Department has a secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations are equally guilty of espionage, there is in Europe a definite...
...grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz. To save his fellow Jews from further persecution. Nathan Rothschild is almost ready to humble himself by appealing to Ledrantz when word arrives, by his secret method of communication, that Napoleon has landed in France and is mobilizing an army...
...have cheered "Caa-a-am-bridge!" as the light blue's eight-legged scorpion came skating over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat in code, so the rival cox could not count the stroke. There were special instruction sessions in the London Rowing Club tank. The crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared...
...cinema, where many remember him best as the doctor-husband in Reunion in Vienna. Last week Actor Morgan put on his nattiest suit, gave his mustache an extra twist and became a businessman. In Manhattan he was elected vice president of a company distributing a famed concoction whose secret formula he will never know. The company: Angostura-Wuppermann. The brew: Angostura-bitters...
...Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...