Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dubonnet fluttered about the apartment warding off reporters. "Under the present circumstances," he explained, "it seems reasonable to understand that my wife cares to make no statement. I am accompanying her to New York tomorrow. ... I am doing all in my power to spare her. . . ." Once before, when their secret marriage was announced in 1926, M. Dubonnet had spared the best dressed woman in Europe from the blows of a stick in the hands of his irate mother, who objected to her new daughter-in-law's notoriety. At 15 Jean Donaldson, daughter of an Erie Railroad vice president...
...followed by Richard P. Wheeler ocC, who is to give "The British Character", by George Santayana '86. Next, selections from Edmund Burke's "Conciliation with the American Colonies" are to be presented by Leonard C. Lewin '36. The subject of the address of John W. Yungblut '35 is "The Secret of Bishop Lawrence's Wisdom," by President Lowell...
...Czechs are getting alarmed by Italian influence in Austria. Jugoslavia is rattled. The prospect of an Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not fantastic. Prince von Starhemberg and his following are Monarchists and make no secret of it. What does Mussolini think about that? ... It is all very dangerous. No one in England yet realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later...
Royal, reactionary Hungary, the kingdom without a King, overflows with secret societies and patriotic leagues. Three months ago an old one reappeared, known as the Society of Awakened Magyars, a chief tenet of which was that all unmarried Hungarian girls over 12 should wear chastity belts. Last week brought another when along the cafe fronts of the Corso marched a stalwart line of little people no higher than the table tops with banners at their head marked "JUSTICE FOR DWARFS," "MIDGETS,AWAKE...
...revealed a striking absence of effort on the defendants' part to approach their solution in a truly disinterested and constructive spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They have contended that their guiding motive has been the elimination of secret discrimination, fraud and waste. ... It is clear that their dominant aim was to preserve uniformity in price structure and to maintain relatively high prices to relieve themselves of burdensome and competitive devices...