Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally Franklin Roosevelt was angry and irritable. He barked orders at his private secretariat and in the confines of the Executive Offices made no secret of his intense resentment, but 24 hours after his defeat he had himself well under control when he met his regular press conference. As cheerful as usual, he delivered a homily on the Court situation, undertaking to look at it in historical perspective...
...German Ambassador in Washington, Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, has been keeping cat-like watch on the Brazilian-U. S. treasury negotiations. It is a more or less open secret that one reason President Roosevelt was so generous last week was to enable Brazil to buy more U. S. goods and thus get along with less of the German goods she has been taking with some reluctance under the dubious trade-promoting schemes which Dr. Schacht works with his various kinds of German marks. This week Adolf Hitler openly revealed his displeasure at the Brazil-U. S. liaison, declared that Washington...
...private telephone number is considered the ultimate in self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare, he made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout, he held the rear end of the car up while he changed the tire. John Montague could drink whiskey by the quart but no one ever...
...romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides the Baron's death warrant. The candlesticks are filched en route, pawned at Budapest, shipped to Paris, auctioned in London. By the time the Countess and the Baron have caught...
...Allies were in the right, and killed and got killed automatically; forgot that in foreign bars U. S. sailors always fought on the German side. By the time the Baton Rouge was put in shape for war service Rex had conquered an aloof Bremerton blonde. But when, after their secret outing in Seattle, she begged him to apply for a soft Navy office job, the most Rex would concede was to marry her before sailing, figuring that he would either be killed or she would fall for somebody else before long...