Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheetlet was a story about some reporters who tried to outsmart the President at a recent Press Club dinner. On the back of a menu they wrote: "I hereby nominate Herbert Bratter [a Washington writer] as Ambassador to the North Pole." Folding the menu so that these words were hidden, they passed it to the President to autograph. When the menu was returned, they discovered that the President had unfolded it, struck out "North," inserted "South," added: "(North Pole already occupied...
...keep the Rightist spies in Barcelona from tipping off Rightist bombers where the Deputies would meet, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin first announced "indefinite postponement," then bundled the 170 into motor cars which streaked 30 miles out to the monastery of Montserrat, where once the Holy Grail was hidden, according to Spanish legend...
...HIDDEN LINCOLN-Edited by Emanuel Hertz-Viking...
...other biographers. Weik took his advice so literally that for 30 years students could not get access to the 8,000 pages of material. Now in the Huntington Library in California, it has been drawn on by Emanuel Hertz, author of Abraham Lincoln-A New Portrait, in editing The Hidden Lincoln. A belated testimonial to Herndon's integrity, The Hidden Lincoln is a big book, dense and badly edited, repetitious, with few explanatory notes. Although it makes fascinating reading for people who know Herndon's Lincoln, it is likely to be alternately boring and shocking to others: boring...
Told for the first time in The Hidden Lincoln is the story of how Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...