Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of this reached Vice Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron at Shanghai, he was so incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal...
...somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...Theodora Goes Wild" is the story of a small town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...
...novels on the wild Fury family, James Hanley gives the impression of having caught a bear by the tail and of being dragged along by the creations his imagination has called into being. That impression, strongly conveyed by The Furys, published last year, is conveyed more powerfully by The Secret Journey, in which Author Hanley again demonstrates his remarkable ability to bring the headstrong Furys to life and his inability to conclude their stories once he has done...
...Secret Journey is a wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when...