Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked spitefully. Three men dropped to the deck dead-Guardsmen Sidney Sanderlin and Victor A. Lamby, U. S. Secret Service Agent Robert K. Webster...
...wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince Franz are believed to be childless. Surely, urge their well-wishers, two such devoted lovers may be pardoned much...
...reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned to live at Sandwich, Mass., where he guards well the secret of his next book's subject...
...nebulous, noisy demands that Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) has made for two months in its attempt to impose the Equity closed shop on Hollywood cinemacting (TIME, July 8 et seq.) were last week crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time...
...guest. Their duties were to report the popular and scientific details exclusively for Hearst and associated newspapers. Other passengers and the crew were forbidden to say a word or sell a picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst paid a secret sum (approximately $200,000). Correspondent Von Wiegand had conceived the flight, arranged details of its stopovers at Tokyo and Los Angeles. He, Sir Hubert and Lady Drummond Hay were to take turns observing and reporting every day and night of the three weeks. She, "who is of a very reserved...