Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Crime Commission well prepared Frank J. Loesch for the subject of his speech, "The Duty a Lawyer Owes to the Public" which he delivers at 8 o'clock tonight in Langdell Hall. It is rumored that Mr. Loesch was one of the members of the mysterious "secret six" that swore to clean up crime in Chicago...
...ships at sea, to police at every port, the French Secret Service flashed descriptions of the Founder-Swindler, asking his arrest. The Dutch steamer Alpherat promptly radioed that a passenger who seemed to fit the description had jumped overboard with a life buoy the evening before, eight miles from the Island of Teneriffe. Shrugged seasoned French operatives, "It has always been like that. Alexandre always escapes...
...Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from exposing him, that he had not fled last week but was still in Paris "under high protection." With her children Mme Stavisky was still in Paris, living in a new apartment under her maiden name which she resumed a few days...
Sons of the Desert (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
...symbolism in her designs. The base of the Inaugural Cake was of lady's cake, a Georgia recipe in honor of President Roosevelt's interest in Warm Springs. Around its rim were miniatures of every President from Washington to Hoover garlanded in gold laurel leaves. The secret of a Mme Blanche cake lies in its seven-step method of icing, of which the five central processes are a sturdy secret...