Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before the migrations, the Greeks had always buried their dead; but after them, the dead were cremated or hidden in secret places to avoid danger of their being exhumed by foreigners...
...painting, goes out to sell it. Both Pepito, his ease-loving friend, and Consuelo, his wife, are confident that he will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this shock, a millionaire plantation owner, Don Manuel, comes from Havana to help Pepito, his nephew, whom...
...sweeter secret hides behind his fame...
...here in Cambridge, the home of our poet, tonight, it is the life rather than the poems of Longfellow that I, as the spokesman of his fellow townsmen, am drawn by affectionate memory chiefly to celebrate; more mindful of the sweeter secret which lies within the melody of his verse than of its outward rhythm and rhyme...
PEQUOT CLUB, MORRIS COVE, CONN., Nov. 23.--The University team-took a two-mile walk this morning to keep the men limbered up. This afternoon at 4 o'clock secret practice was held for the second time in a nearby field, which is enclosed with canvas. Burr tried a few punts, Newhall practiced drop-kicking, and Osborne made several successful attempts at goal kicking...