Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile the Senate called in the three airway officials who had been kept cooling their heals in a side room under guard of a paunchy Capitol policeman. All that day and all the next Mr. Jurney searched in vain, though Mr. MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office of the clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look for him there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall...
Though the names of prisoners taking N. Y. U.'s course were kept secret. Sing Sing inmates who could have told the professors something about the practical side of their subjects included Frank H. Warder, onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks; Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, onetime president and executive vice president respectively of New York's Bank of United States...
...hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that his world's base had been built on stubble, felt to his secret horror that he himself was growing soft, slack, ignoble...
...complete domination over her younger sister and still younger brother. When the last male representative of the line marries a nurse, Victoria determines to break up the marriage and force him into espousal of a girl of his own class. She fails, but magnificently. The "double door," concealing a secret sound proof chamber, is first her weapon and last her undoing, but always the force shaping her destiny and her family...
...gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued at the end, after being condemned to death. One touch...