Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...postponed. In their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...
...story, Oliver Wiswell is one of the best yarns Novelist Roberts has spun. It is packed with people, battles, sudden flights, escapes, rail-riding mobs, secret service, forlorn defenses, intrigue, massacres, exile, and there is the usual restrained Roberts love story. There are also great scenes: the headlong flight by sea of thousands of tory refugees and British troops from Boston; the heroic stupidity of the repeated British frontal attacks at Bunker Hill, seen through tory eyes from Charlestown windows and roof tops...
...instead of the usual one hundred and fifty. Little conveniences, like fifty-yard line seats to football games, cashing checks, and bailing valuable sinners out of jail, all serve to keep the tailors and their "church school" clientele "a nice congenial group." This "congenial group" motto is the real secret of the custom tailor. It is a group made up of boys who have known each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they...
CHICAGO--A 23-year-old alien, until recently an agent of the German Gestapo, appeared before a secret hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities tonight with photographs of United States industrial plants and admitted he had engaged in espionage in this country, Rep. Martin Dies, D. Tex., announced...
Present at this exchange was Hearst's veteran Washington columnist, Paul Mallon (no kin to little Miss Winifred). He had had some trouble getting in: a secret-service man barred his way. White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre admitted him, told him to stay behind when the conference ended. Then, said Newsman Mallon, "a White House Spokesman" told him not to come again-that "because of inaccuracies in his column" he would not be welcome...