Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clothing Workers of America (membership: 225,000), last week emerged from WPA headquarters. He had just been discussing a new, shiny and portentous proposition with WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Said he emerging: "It will be some time before the proposal goes through-if it ever does." But he made no secret of the details of his scheme...
...mountainous South Tyrol sticks out as the weakest spot in the Berlin-Rome axis. Promise of this 30-mile, largely vertical strip along the Italian-Austrian border was part of the secret deal which in 1915 brought the Kingdom of Italy into the World War against her former Central Powers allies. No minorities treaty was signed by Italy, but until minority-hating Fascism's advent there was little oppression of the German population. In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated. In the district's schools only Italian teachers conducting lessons in Italian were allowed. Germanic...
Last week, day before the bride's birthday, the couple were married. Kurt Schuschnigg was unable to attend his own wedding, for though he had been escorted away from Belvedere, he was being held for questioning in Vienna's former Hotel Metropole, now Nazi secret political police headquarters. By special mandate his brother, Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg, former director of the Austrian Federal Broadcasting Co., went in for him at the altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real...
...Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...
...what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that hath not been...