Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd adaptation of the physician's hypodermic and the chemist's skill to the problems of the chef. A pigeon, chicken, goose, pheasant, sheep, pig or even cow is firmly secured and a hypodermic injection made into the heart. Before this organ ceases to function the secret hypodermic fluid has penetrated through the veins and into the flesh, flavoring or coloring it as the art of the intrasauceur may require. Thus all crude flavoring methods such as dusting with pepper and salt, tying in strips of bacon, or basting with a sauce are triumphantly supplanted...
...this point it is reasonable to assume that imperative secret messages have passed, during the last two months, between the mighty Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the puny Republic of Austria. The Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, is a conservative, and no fool. He knows that the Communists of Vienna unquestionably possess supplies of arms and that not long ago they staged murderous riots. All would not be well in Austria if Bela Kun, the most prominent agitator in the employ of the Moscow Third International, should come to harm...
Wheel of Chance. Richard Barthelmess plays twin brothers: one is an able district attorney; the other is an unfortunate youth on trial for the murder of his mistress. The outcome of the trial shall remain a secret in these pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette...
...Kerensky quotes a Latvian citizen, M. Vladimir Brunowsky, who has deposed that on May 10, 1923, in Moscow, he was approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...
Born. To Mae Murray, cinemactress, and David M'Divani, Prince of Georgia, a son; 16 months ago, in Los Angeles. Said Prince M'Divani: "We had thought to keep the fact a secret ... because of the effect it might have on my wife's career...