Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...
...Carol slipped head phones on their ears and called up King Alexander of Jugoslavia, 250 miles away in Belgrade. Alexander, who plays the game of France and is encouraged by her to play the Dictator in Jugoslavia, had just the day before broken one premier and made another. The secret telephone conference of the three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey in an ambitious union against fascism. In this great design France and Russia, implacable foes of fascism, are supposed to be using their influence...
...safest repositories for secrets of U. S. aviation are Charles A. Lindbergh and Orville Wright. Both have spent years successfully resisting efforts of newshawks to make them talk. Last week Airmen Lindbergh and Wright had a good chance to teach their secretiveness to others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week...
...cash surplus has enabled him to live comfortably in Brooklyn where he has a secret studio to which he escapes from moppets who make pilgrimages to the Peter Rabbit Man. He collects Spanish furniture, ship models, Persian ceramics. He travels where he will when he will, and life has left him, at the age of 56, as healthy and bright-eyed as Caleb Cottontail himself...
...them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself to be persuaded by Oilman Sammécaud that being given control of a newspaper is not bribery. His mistress, Germaine, gets further entangled in the market. Realtor Haverkamp begins to get his finger in some real pies. The liberals...