Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telling reporters afterward how she had turned on the radio, laughing Lady Alice cried: "Their surprise was so amusing! Only our families had known. The details of our romance must remain secret. But I can tell you that the Duke proposed to me three weeks ago and I accepted...
With jackals and hyenas howling outside the Royal Palace at Addis Ababa last week, a jovial Englishman with the fat chaps of John Bull and a dour Maine Yankee worked furiously in secret. They were writing up something in English, something so important that no one Ethiopian scribe got a look at the whole thing. By the Emperor's command the English sheets were scrambled and handed out of order to different Ethiopian translators, all vowed to secrecy...
Last year Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev were reported to be writing a book revealing how they accomplished the preservation. It was rumored that they would make the disclosure at last month's International Physiological Congress in Moscow. Last week they said they would keep the secret a dozen or so years longer. Among U. S. physiologists, medical men and embalmers, however, there was scant belief that the secret, when finally bared, would be startling, or that anything had been done with Lenin that could not be duplicated by careful, skilful employment of well-known methods...
Most U. S. scientists suppose that Comrades Zbarsky & Vorobev forced the blood, which decomposes easily, from Lenin by pumping into an artery carbolic acid, glycerin, alcohol, formaldehyde-or perhaps some other chemical concoction which may be their secret. These preservatives pervade all the organs and blood vessels, even the capillaries, complete the same circuit as the blood. When a corpse is to be kept for a long time for scientific purposes, additional glycerin is pumped in at intervals to prevent shrinkage. Near-natural color could have been obtained by adding an aniline dye to the embalming fluid. The American Academy...
...Williamsburg, Revolutionary capital of Virginia, five students of substance at the College of William & Mary were sufficiently bored with the patriotic hullabaloo to spend their time founding the world's first Greek Letter fraternity. Named Phi Beta Kappa,* it was replete with key, motto, initiation rites and a secret salute. So secret was its salute that the founders, who had described it in their minutes, hastily smudged out the last part of the description, when Lord Cornwallis' troops began to plunder Williamsburg...