Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realistic handling, its sincere action. The spy is, in the first place, a very ordinary very pretty country girl, and so there is no mixing of ball-room and bedroom diplomatics with firing-squad angelics. Madeleine Carroll shows that a Flemish variety of Mata Hari can play around with secret codes, drink-befuddled German officers, and counter-spies without help of a Circle-like reputation, and without confusing the issues by failing in love with a young brave of the enemy...
...snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
...reference to corruption in high office was greeted with roars of applause. It seemed a pity to turn good money from the box office, but the Government thought otherwise. Emile Fabre was removed overnight and surprised actors learned that their new director was to be the chief of the secret police. Said a government official: "While admitting the play's merits, we feel that the Comédie Francaise has been presenting Coriolanus much more often than its purely dramatic qualities warrant...
...away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim's airdrome outside Moscow one morning last week. By noon the ground station was proudly issuing copies of radio messages from the balloon, that it had climbed to 67,585 ft., that all was well, that it was about to come...