Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard football team, or any other, has nothing on me when it comes to training," remarked Marilyn Miller, peerless queen of musical comedy, last night to a CRIMSON reporter when he had sufficiently mastered the situation to ask her to speak of herself and the secret of her remarkable success on the stage. Miss Miller begins a long run at the Colonial Theatre in Boston Tuesday night in Charles Dillingham's musical comedy production "Sunny", in which she starred for 15 months in New York...
...ancient Capital, with 50 workmen and began work on the great two-wheeled cart in which the Tenno's remains will journey to the grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse will be made of unvarnished cypress, oak, teakwood and fir, 12 feet high, 23½ feet long...
...Devil in the Cheese (produced in Pasadena a year ago). In Tom Cushing's play, a piece of cheese before bedtime brings on a good dream in which the secret chambers of a girl's mind are explored. Everywhere, the seeker finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action...
...course of his South American expedition two years ago, Dr. McGovern encountered and was attacked by many savage tribes, but with the assistance of his remarkable genius for languages, finally gained their confidence and was admitted to their most secret rites...
...Then, by God, I'll crush him to a pulp!" And Lockhart doubled his knuckled fists into two tight palsied knots.) But Rowntree is never crushed. At two o'clock one morning, pacing his father's library, he clutches at a musty volume. Out drops the secret letter which his father wrote him on the day of his death. So! Lockhart stole the patents, then! But Rowntree Sr. was at one time in love with the young woman who later became Mrs. Lockhart. Therefore no true Rowntree would expose her thief-of-a-husband. And so Rowntree...