Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Peace Prizer Briand's dander was now up, he digressed completely, to flay the many critics of the new, secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
...They talk of secret clauses. All we were doing was endeavoring to assist the cause of disarmament...
...father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion, had orders to guard against and censor all importune press photographs...
Instead the railway doctor who has just prescribed for Mexico was found in Canada. He is Sir Henry Worth Thornton, since 1922 chairman of the Board and president of the Canadian National Railways. Last week the secret of his recent suspiciously informal visit to Mexico with Canadian railway colleagues was finally revealed...
...plans are a government secret, but it is safe to say that the new ships will be longer and possibly more efficient than the Los Angeles (built in Germany as Zeppelin ZR-3). They will have either Maybach or Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...