Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before he died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety legs which folded up so that it could be carried about like a trunk, its green-baize writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan...
Aside from the fact that Mr. Lynch lives in a Business School dormitory which overlooks at least a part of the secret football field, his qualifications as a sports writer are based upon his ability as an amateur hockey player and the possession of a W.O. McGeehanesque acepticism. As a hockey player, Mr. Lynch was one of Boston's best amateur puck-stoppers and this position naturally gave him a detached view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American...
...amiable English gentleman who had never seen an American football game was responsible for the breaking up of the "Flying Wedge." He was the guest of Major Henry L. Higginson, Hon, '82, donor of Soldiers Field, at secret practice one day. A few weeks later he related to some friends in San Francisco the story of the practice and the "Flying Wedge" as he saw it. At a nearby table in the restaurant sat a Yale man. He could make nothing of the tale, but wrote to New Haven that Harvard apparently had a dangerous formation. The coaches put their...
Hero Burns was the youth who solved his native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore...
...words an adequate idea of the perfection of the work of Rodriquez. It is the coloring which makes his reproductions truly remarkable. He uses no forms, but fashions every piece of bark, and makes every weather check by hand before the surface cement has hardened. His color process is secret...