Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their mercy treaties, pledges and written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces...
...Italy's Dictator opened his address to Germans, and he spoke in German, not extempore as usual but reading. "Comrades! . . . We shall never forget that Germany was not among the nations which imposed sanctions against us! ... Germany has awakened. ... I do not know when Europe will awake, for secret forces not unknown to us are at work striving to transform a civil war [Spain's] into a world conflagration. ... In answer to the question posed by the whole world, 'What will be the outcome of the meeting in Berlin, war or peace...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...boat and train to Paris, where in a small secret office his enlistment papers were filled out and approved; by train to Marseille and thence, by night and with all lights darkened, in a freighter across the Mediterranean-so John Sommerfield, young English Leftist writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance...
...lights. A big-shot will occasionally stop for a red light, usually goes through it at about 20 miles per hour, while small-shots who have the green light with them jam on their brakes. A bigger-shot, his 8-cylinder car followed by a 4-cylinder containing five secret police in caps and leather overcoats, takes the red lights at about 40 miles per hour, horn screeching as he nears the intersection...