Word: sub-rosa
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...Democrats skillfully rebuilt a party machine to take advantage of the challenge. 2) The Democratic tide is running in California as it is elsewhere around the U.S. 3) Recession and general uneasiness over world affairs stirred a protest vote of sorts. 4) Republicans were split and confused by sub-rosa battling between Knowland and Knight factions...
...away last week listening to Japanese Admiral Nagano's demands for a navy at least as large as that of the U. S. and Britain. U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis worried over rumors that behind the scenes the Japanese were getting somewhere in bi- lateral, sub-rosa dickering. Overoptimistic Japanese correspondents in London gave their countrymen hope that a 5-4-4 naval ratio might just possibly be wangled with Britain at 5 and Japan and U. S. trailing as naval equals...
...unsatisfactory reply which Germany has just made to the Austrian note of a week ago demanding that the Reich cease its sub-rosa aid to the Fascist party in Austria has precipitated a serious situation in that country. Dollfuss finds himself in a highly precarious position, with the political unity of his country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain...
...many offers were more flattering to her figure than honorable to her sex. She was willing to marry Walter, the Jewish bank clerk, but something respectable in him drove him elsewhere. Circumstances took Ray to Manhattan. There she re-encountered Walter, less clerkly, more respectable. They drifted into a sub-rosa apartment, and she became the perfect mistress, he the perfect banker. Legally unhallowed years brought out the sacrificial-maternal in Ray, the paunchy ego in Walter. When he died respectably in the arms of his wife, he had made no allowance for faithful Ray. Her old beau Kurt...
...manipulation of the manikins is made to suggest at one point a parallel to the sub-rosa and subauricular romance of the wife and her sweetheart. Ultimately, the husband discovers the liaison, offers his breast to the dagger of the other man. But the affair is hushed up without unnecessary stabbing...