Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement was a surprise to his friends, for it is no secret that to Kermit Roosevelt business is quite an academic affair. Ever since he played around the White House grounds 20 years ago, he has shown the naturalistic bent of his father. When Theodore Roosevelt was on his hunting trips, Kermit was usually along, taking photographs of his father and the fauna. The two were together on the African hunting trip of 1909-10, on the Brazilian "River of Doubt" exploration of 1914. (Between 1911 and 1916 Kermit made essays at engineering and banking in South America. He married...
...years more meant leaving his family in poor circumstances. Bravely he cast for London and separation from those he loved. "Oberon" was fitted out with an English libretto and Weber himself took up the study of English. According to his diary, he left his home with the secret foreboding that he would never see it again. His three months in London were a nightmare of homesickness for his family, physical suffering, fears for his tremendous venture. The popularity of his opera and concerts, personally conducted, was the record-breaking sensation of musical London. At last he was free to return...
...play in which the heroine had innumerable affairs and was openly coveted by an octogenarian lecher. (The Makropoulos Secret...
...fall of 1914 he sought Professor Masaryk with a fully drafted Czechoslovakian war program. Together they organized the Czech Mafia, a secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies. It was Benes who secured the recognition of the Czechoslovaks by the Allies (1917) as a people to be liberated from foreign rule. In 1918 he obtained from Balfour and Clemenceau recognition for Czechoslovakia, as "an Allied and Belligerent nation." At that time French publicist Fournal wrote: "Benes has destroyed Austria-Hungary...
...people of the United States know nothing of what has been going on in Arica. They do not understand the question. This is, in part, due to the secret negotiations which Secretary of State Kellogg has been carrying on in Washington, only releasing what he thought suitable to the press...