Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party, including Mr. Coolidge, native guides, Secret Service men, caught 32 speckled trout in one afternoon. Ten of these (among which was the largest) chose the President's hook...
California had several interesting little situations going on at once. Governor Richardson was fighting to have one E. A. ("Big Hutch") Hutchings, Los Angeles bunko man, sent back to San Quentin to finish a prison term from which he was strangely paroled at a secret meeting of the prison directors last year. Up in the Imperial Valley they were investigating the fate of large public sums belonging to the county irrigation bureau. Property owners in Los Angeles sued the city and various contractors for alleged cost-boosting on harborside improvements...
...Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
...demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain of the military seizure demanded by Armed Poland. When finally tracked down by reporters, the Marshal was discovered in superintendence of secret maneuvres by the poison gas corps of the Polish Army...
...always does the Church know its own. Many a Senator bellows biblically in the Bryan-country, who never says his prayers in secret. But pietist-for-politics-only would be a most inadequate description of William E. Sweet, onetime Governor of Colorado, onetime banker, now candidate for the U. S. Senate, backed by farmers, laborers. Said the Christian Century...