Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking of the week's program at the Paramount and Fenway, in order to begin with a note of optimism, we have to describe the "second big hit" first. For Warner Oland's mystifying in "Charlie Chan's Secret" proves much more enticing than the rigmarole of "Coronado...
There will also be a movie entitled "The Magic Key" which deals with the methods of extracting bromine from sea water. This will be the last meeting of the Club until the second week in February, when there will be a talk on secret inks and forgery...
...that the Russian spy clique is little by little openly assuming some trappings of the power it has wielded for years. In effect an Ogpu Cabinet had been created alongside the State's Cabinet. The new Cabinet of Yagoda: Commissar Yakov S. Agranov of the so-called Ogpu Secret Section devoted to unmasking and destroying Enemies of the Regime. On his hurry call to Leningrad after a Communist assassinated Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), industrious Ogpuer Agranov had 66 men and five women shot in four days of star chamber proceedings, caused...
...company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months of semiweekly treatments, Agronomist Jones felt the best possible moisture control had been obtained. The surface, he proudly puffed, was "like an Oriental...
...beauty in mountains and wild landscapes that previous ages had considered only horrible or terrifying. The man who has exercised this tremendous influence was nervous, sentimental, irresponsible, ill. Finding Rousseau's Confessions unreliable, Ellis gains more enlightenment from the 20 volumes of his correspondence, discovers the secret of his genius in the "swiftness and sincerity" of his actions and reactions. Rousseau was like "an exquisite instrument, giving forth a music which responds to the varying emotions of the hand that strikes it." Thus the intellectual conflicts of his time moved him as other men are moved by pain...