Word: secretly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were brave men in Germany last week who risked their lives for an ideal. The shrewdest brains of the Nazi secret police were trying to find out who they were. Meanwhile in the midst of the greatest exhibition of organized mob hysteria Germany has ever seen, small slips of paper, some printed, some mimeographed, some typed, continued to be circulated surreptitiously from hand to hand. All had the same theme: "Comrades, write NO on your ballots! Every vote of NO is a vote against war, against misery, against famine, concentration camps and murders...
Colonel Edward Starling of the Secret Service and the converted Coast Guard cutter Potomac last week arrived in Miami. The same day two of the Navy's most up-to-date destroyers, the Monaghan and the Dale skidded into Port Everglades. The U. S. was mobilizing on Florida. Same day in Washington Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her syndicated diary...
...John Davison Rockefeller Sr. at play 36 years ago was divulged last week by his onetime golf teacher, Joe Mitchell, now professional at the Lake Shore Country Club in Chicago. Oilman Rockefeller had taken up the game when his horseshoe-pitching arm went dead, wished to keep his preparations secret from Mrs. Rockefeller, who already played a respectable duffer's game. Accordingly Instructor Mitchell was brought to the course every morning in Mr. Rockefeller's own closed carriage. The strange cries which occasionally sounded over the course came from guards posted to warn Mr. Rockefeller of his wife...
Operatic comedies have had the most success in translation. The Cleveland Orchestra has given praiseworthy performances of Die Fledermaus and The Secret of Suzanne in English. Philadelphia excelled with Falstaff and The Marriage of Figaro last winter. All children want to understand the words when they go to Hansel and Gretel, a fact recognized years ago by the touring San Carlo Company...
Winthrop House will revel in melodrama tonight as it watches "Lady Audley's Secret," or the "Distraught Villainness," played by a group of its own inhabitants...