Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner, Mrs. Eleanor Mott, wife of a young plumbing executive and daughter of Sir Ashley...
...Chicago. He brought a thorough knowledge of battling banking, a Texan wife (Dorothy Arnold Yerby), a distaste for liquor and a profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going to Houston as a delegate-at-large from Illinois. Hidden among the Irish cohorts of Boss Brennan, Teetotaler Traylor studied the party, Al Smith, Tammany. Last week, he explained: "The drawback to politics in this country is that business men do not take enough interest in it. ... Professional politicians are necessary. . . . The Democratic party is now in the hands...
Alluringly foreign are the names of precious unguents and their makers. But deep hidden under the black-bakelite boudoir jars of Terri's "Exquisite Face Powder" one may find the name of Terence Ryan, its maker. And famed Madame Helena Rubinstein is also called Mrs. Edward Titus. Laden with scents and sounds of the Orient, her most esoteric triumphs reach Manhattan from no more distant point than her factory on Long Island...
...John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost $5 per bottle in fines. After twelve hours...
...tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along to join the white lovers in respectable matrimony, whereupon sudden lurid tragedy separates them for dreary years. But at last the dog unites Jeems with his wife and unsuspected child...