Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Lawrence Milner (retired) of the Oregon National Guard testified that he had been with Bridges to Communist Party meetings in Portland, seen him pay Party dues, knew that he avoided Communists in public, and they him, to keep his interest secret. Witness Milner admitted having committed perjury at a Communist Party trial but said he only did so in the line of his undercover duty...
...Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just in time. Unnamed secret policemen conferred with Scotland Yard. A suave and charming investment broker ("known in political circles throughout Europe") ran luxurious offices in the Place de la Madeleine, had $13,250,000 in Nazi gold to spend, used two or three clever and beautiful women, two clever private detectives, and a Dictaphone...
...Archeology, Dr. Maggi corrected himself, proved to many, but not all, the academicians' satisfaction that the emperor in question is Vespasian, that perhaps another figure in the marble pageant is Domitian. The Cancelleria discovery, made and handled by reticent Vatican scholars, was for long months kept a secret. This reticence has deprived your readers of the account of one of the most dramatic archeological finds to be made in our time...
...Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...