Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation has not favored the election of a President of great wealth" with the exception of George Washington. Had he been talking about Secretaries of the Treasury he must have observed that the reverse is true-the richer the Treasurer the more trusted. That is part of the secret of Andrew Mellon's wide popularity...
President Leatherbee of the Harvard Dramatic Club made known late last night the results of the secret meeting which kept the lights going in the Advocate House until ten o'clock...
...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...
...reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done my duty to God and the State." Mrs. Gatlin embraced her husband...
...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...