Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the secret Government session at which this decision was taken Count Coreth, the official rapporteur, announced with apostolic zeal: "The Austrian people could no longer endure the injury done the Habsburgs in 1919 when they were deprived of their citizenship and property. Dollfuss, from his place in Heaven, will surely be glad to know that the Austrian Government is canceling this unjust...
...peasants meanwhile cheered sexagenarian Croat Leader Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany...
Last week gossip-mongering Walter Winchell went off on a secret vacation. Like a symphony leader turning over his baton to a series of guest conductors, Columnist Winchell had arranged for a series of celebrities and near-celebrities to write for one day each his syndicated On Broadway. Each playing his own particular tune, the first half-dozen guest conductors sounded off as follows...
...seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes such rarities as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bach's Phobus and Pan, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona...
...last week, having swung through Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, the Merchandise Express was chuffing into the South. When its 3,000-mile itinerary is completed it will have visited 19 important centres including Memphis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Atlanta. Precise dates of arrival were kept secret so that no sly competitor could stage a counterattraction...