Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boysy" is staying (see p. 15), this week invited Mrs. Simpson to visit her in Austria. The last Scotland Yard detectives assigned to Mrs. Simpson had just cleared out of Cannes. With bagfuls of threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left, it was said directly for Mrs. Simpson that she might accept the Archduchess Ileana's invitation, providing Mrs. Simpson's famed Aunt Bessie can accompany...
...Meeting in a stormy secret session at Geneva, the moribund League of Nations Council with unexpected courage approved the British-French plan that a plebiscite be taken among the Spanish people to see what sort of government Spain now wants. Just how to do this the Council did not suggest...
...conductor has been engaged, Portuguese-born Maurice de Abravanel, and an old one re-engaged, Richard Hageman, who will be on hand to direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov...
...into Tsingtao piled 600 more Japanese marines. When their commander made secret demands which local Chinese officials pluckily rejected as "unreasonable and fantastic," Japanese war boats rushed into port to menace Tsingtao further with their big guns. The Japanese marines moved forward to seize the city's water works, then moved back as 3,000 Chinese troops approached. Sudden freezing weather came and 36,000 locked-out Chinese millworkers shivered, railing at the warm Japanese millowners...
...secrets in recent history have been so badly kept as Lawrence's many secret missions and changes of identity, his periodic and highly publicized droppings-out-of-sight. Few carefully-guarded, privately-printed volumes have become so well-known as his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Last month the curtain was drawn from another characteristic Lawrence concealment when Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beating the release date on a book by 14 years, received Lawrence's $500,000 posthumous volume, The Mint, for The Saturday Review of Literature...