Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as with many another War flier, "air fever" once more laid hold of Ace Ingalls. Last week, news leaked out that he and Heraclio Alfaro, a Cleveland college instructor formerly with the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company in Cleveland, were building a plane of secret design, trying to win the Guggenheim Foundation's $100,000 prize for aeronautical progress. At the same time, people learned that Ace Ingalls was on his hometown Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, helping to make Cleveland a bigger & better airport. Other retired fliers knew how Ace Ingalls felt when, quizzed...
Already $5,500 has been contributed, and promises of more have been heard from many sources, according to the latest bulletins. But the Senator says that the names of the donors will be kept secret, for reasons known only to himself. The situation thus begins to resemble the one familiar to readers of detective stories in which a jewel has disappeared and the lights are extinguished for the thief to return it undiscovered if he so desires. The only chance of failure for such a plan is that the treasure will not be returned intact, and unless various guilty consciences...
...show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while the privy passageway beyond remains a secret...
...negotiations, the Wafd demanded and obtained as a minimum sop to its prestige, the resignation of Sarwat and his cabinet. Prognostications were that Nahass Pasha would again attempt to force the creation of a Wafd cabinet, and might possibly be permitted to succeed if he would convey a secret pledge of "good behavior" to Baron Lloyd...
Those who profess to believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...