Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yourself how much you really know about the weather. Do you know what would justify an official forecast of rain? do you know why the wind blows? have you any idea what a cyclone is or what causes a tornado? It is this type of thing which is hidden behind the more or less baffling heading of "Meteorology" and which in reality is more closely connected with our everyday life than any other science...
Boston censorship is like a vacuum cleaner; it beats everything; it finds the hidden dirt, and it makes considerable noise in doing so. Just recently Mayor Nichols has decided to ban the stage version of "Strange Interlude." Although the Watch and Ward Society is considering the suppression of the book, it may still be purchased in any local bookstore, so that he who runs fast enough may read...
...rumors that the Arabs had hidden large ammunition stores plundered from retreating Turks ten years ago were given credence as heavy shooting increased...
Diamonds. Tormented are many U. S. customsmen and all legitimate jewelers by the smuggling of small, easily hidden precious stones. Honest diamond dealers, undersold by the smuggled article, have banded together into the American Jewelers Protective Association of which Meyer Rothschild of Manhattan is president. This organization, touchy and suspicious, cooperates with U. S. agents to prevent diamond smuggling, receives tips on smugglers, collects U. S. rewards for incentive to smuggle...
...fond of being called "King of the Rum Runners," was navigating his liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King" Alderman, a begrizzled, bespectacled salt of 48, was removed to the cutter. Suddenly he whipped out a hidden revolver, became captor instead of captive, lined the crew along the rail. He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated...