Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store as a cache...
Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first husband instead of her second, as she had led him to believe, he first learned of his claim to nobility when she was unable to provide him with a proper birth certificate, admitted that she had deceived him. Because no O'Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since...
...shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before...
...pitching equivalent of Gehrig's four-home-run feat is a no-hit, no-run game. Hubbell achieved the only such game played in the major leagues in 1929. Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing up on a farm in Carthage, Mo., he practiced for hours at a time a form of ingrown athletic solitaire which consisted of throwing stones at a barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than...
...thing, it should be self-evident by this time that "stabilization funds" are the instruments of economic nationalism, that secret manipulation of the exchange rates, like protective tariffs, is used for purely national ends. And today the three countries concerned have created vast stabilization funds and propose to use them separately within the vague framework of an informal agreement. With the understanding but a week old, yesterday's news brings report of a disagreement already existing between Great Britain and the United States as to what the parity should be between the dollar and the pound, for, as might...