Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young appointment had no overt politics in it. However, Des Moines, Iowa, may jubilate over Midwest preference. Clarence Young was born nearby, attended Drake university there, and after being graduated from Yale's law school in 1910, practiced law there until the War. After the War he was executive secretary of the Des Moines Municipal Research Bureau, which has made that community one of the few in the U. S. with little political graft...
...Webster's broadest sense, sedition is ''excitement of discontent against the government"; narrowly it is "conduct tending to treason, but without an overt...
Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance...
...prevent war as soon as shots have actually been fired by one of the adversaries, major interest centred last week on numerous border skirmishes, incessantly rumored to be taking place along the Chino-Russian frontier. The moment such a skirmish assumed sufficiently bloody proportions to be called an "overt act," it might serve as the tinder spark of war. Soon across the barrier of censorship, lies vast and uncharted distances, came a loud Chinese accusation. The Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, officially charged that Red troops had attacked Chinese frontier guards not far from Pogro-nichnaya...
Oldster Baldwin did nothing overt, last week, but presently the press was informed that youngster Wales would not make his announced trip to South Wales, where the poverty and near famine of unemployed miners is even more notorious than in the North. Rightly or wrongly correspondents thought that the Prime Minister's large, flabby hand had stayed the Prince...