Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mood and mental attitude." The three chief figures in "The Man of Property" she takes as symbols of certain prime, moving ideas: "The Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point...
This year Denmark's total imports have dropped 20%, but her imports from Britain are up 15%-due probably to her National Bank's covert activities. Danish importers found comfort in one provision of the new import laws last week: although they can be forced to buy where the State pleases, the State cannot cut the total imports of a Danish middle-man in 1933 to less than 45% of his total imports...
...White House guest of honor during President Hoover's acceptance speech. Last week Alice Roosevelt Longworth entered her political disavowal of "Cousin Frank." Beginning her reminiscences in the current Ladies' Home (in which Baltimore Sun's Frank Richardson Kent was suspected of being a covert collaborator)"Princess Alice" remarked...
...exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher has made a fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy gale. The chickadee and the song sparrow are his favorite birds...
...That submarines be abolished (proposed by the U. S. and Britain with the covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel...