Word: circumspection
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...Philip himself no longer had to be so circumspect. At a meeting of 6,000 British Legionnaires in Albert Hall last week, he turned to his betrothed as she sat in the royal box and loudly sang: Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major...
Though their readers may be unaware of the fact, newspapers go to great lengths to be circumspect whenever they report lotteries: U.S. postal laws prohibit news of lotteries. News of Irish Sweepstakes winners is usually lifted out of any editions going through the mail. But a news story which broke two months ago in Ahoskie, N.C. was something different. It involved a raffle, but the point was that a Negro who had drawn the winning number had.been refused the prize, a Cadillac...
...approval. Fundamentally Elizabeth is a dutiful and levelheaded daughter who enjoys reading the latest best-sellers (For Whom the Bell Tolls was a favorite), knitting (she hates sewing), and gossipy teas with Margaret and a few girl friends before an open fire at the Palace. Even her revels are circumspect affairs. Once when she led a conga line around the Palace the sentries saluted as the dancers passed. The nightclubs she haunts are the most fashionable, her guests impeccably aristocratic, and a Scotland Yard operative is always on hand to choose a table and clear a path to the ladies...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...
Marine headquarters refused to make accusations. Communist headquarters at Yenan was less circumspect; it announced that Red units had fought marines at Anping, called the battle a consequence of U.S. interference in China. U.S. authorities noted that the convoy had been taking supplies not to Chinese Nationalists, but to a tripartite (Nationalist-Communist-U.S.) truce team trying to avert open civil war in the Peiping area...