Word: secretly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charles Fama of the Bronx, N. Y., promulgated the prophecy that 90% of the country's Italian-American vote would be pro-Hoover. The reason, according to Dr. Fama, was that Italians have been taught to favor "separation of church and state." Dr. Fama charged that secret orders were coming from Italy instructing U. S. Fascists to vote for Smith. Such orders, he said, would be indignantly disobeyed...
Alarums. His Most Catholic Majesty was of course urbanely aware that there had been the annual attempt at revolution during his annual holiday, and that the normal alarums had not quite died down. Specifically, the Secret Police were making a great many arrests in Spain, last week, and the Cabinet issued at Madrid a proclamation...
...William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, is the biological chef who concocted the food pill. It is about the size of a pigeon's egg, is composed principally of nitrogen, phosphorus, iron salts. The definite recipe is still a secret; each plant requires different proportions of ingredients and many formulas remain still to be worked out. Chef Gericke plans to tell U. S. agricultural colleges and departments about the food pill when he returns from lecturing in England, France, Germany, Italy on his experiments. Plant lovers may soon be able to buy the pills...
...Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
...best known is Hunt Diederich whose works are popular in the homes of millionaires. The technique of iron work is exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar Brandt keeps his methods secret and will not let his workmen find out more about his processes than he can help. No one will ever know just how he made Rodman Wanamaker...