Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When daring Spector & Myznikov went so far as to enter the stores singly and have relatives and friends do the same and insist on buying records, alert Stalin Secret Police were soon on the miscreants' trail. They were accused in court last week of reselling their phonograph records privately to more timid Moscow music lovers who make their purchases in the safety of dark alleys rather than in the State Music Stores. The court sentenced Spector & Myznikov to seven years each in jail, gave their accomplice's from six to five years each...
...Soviet Union was a local speech, duplicated by thousands of orators, echoing the keynote sounded at Moscow on the 19th Anniversary of the Red Army by Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. The official keynote: "The two countries which most threaten peace-Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan-have made no secret of their plans to attack the Soviet Union. . . . They are viciously sharpening their swords!" This was followed by what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems to have in the pigeon holes of its General...
Such a dilemma confronted Rev. J. Fred Johnson of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. last fortnight when a deacon informed him that Mary Katherine Prince and Frank Otto Cotton Jr. had been married-properly, by a Georgia clergyman-for two years. They had kept it secret from all but a handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...
...Minister Johnson invoke the usual blessings upon all the assembled. Whispers ran through the pews when he said: "We are gathered together for the announcement of the wedding of this man and this woman." Surprise, bewilderment, and finally the relief of comprehension followed as those not in on the secret listened to the following...
...general war broke out, Author Prentiss believes that war gases which have proved efficient would be picked up where they were dropped in 1918. No one can say, of course, that a supergas has not been developed in secret, but this does not seem likely because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored. Moreover, nothing could be plausibly called a supergas until it had proved itself in practice. Many an idea that looked brilliant in the laboratory has been a dud on the battlefield...