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Word: secretly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer simply got to his feet and stubbornly told 74-year-old Mr. Lloyd George by implication to shut up and retire to the British has-beens' corner in these elegant, indirect and almost-insulting words: "My right honorable friend [Lloyd George] has found the secret foi perpetual youth, and therefore nobody expects him to play the part of an elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More and Better Strikes | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Miss Marster's age must remain a secret. For although she readily admitted it early in the interview, she later asked that it not be printed since it was against the wishes of the Managing Editor, whose office is adjoining Ann's, that the public know that she is 23 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Marsters Admits Old Fascination For Undergraduates but Thrill Is Gone | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

...disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley, and only by an attack on his influence in the back wards will the career of King James be halted. Two ways are open to the people of Boston who wish to curb the magnificent power for evil that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY SLEEPING DOGS DON'T LIE | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

Then Mary Cheffey, in the play the secret bride of a V.M.I. first-classman, burst in the room: "What is this, an interview? How cute!" She smiled at a delicate question and said: "I'm used to being pregnant eight time a week, but I get embarrassed when the audience laughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playful Cast of "Brother Rat" Admits It Gets Kick from Every Performance of Current Success | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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