Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to see him taking his week-end tramps among the woods and hills, . . . always alone, except for two stalwart figures that follow at a discreet distance, his hat off, his cherry-wood pipe in full blast?he once confessed that he had never given more than a shilling for a pipe?and his long strides devouring the miles with an air of lusty exhilaration. He is English to the core and loves his country for the right things...
...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...
Lawyer, provincial mayor, globetrotter, potent government official, Brillat-Savarin was yet first and foremost the Boswell to his own Johnson. While his social and convivial self toasted with discreet enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...
...release for publication by the Committee of a few of the reports which have been inaugurated this year seems to have evoked a mild protest. It is true that this protest comes not from the Freshman class, but rather from upperclassmen whose discreet susceptibilities have been wounded. But it remains a protest...
...Massachusetts farmers combined with locomotive engineers, lost an appeal to make Federal provision for Standard Time in the states. Associate Justice Holmes ("poetic; liberal") [TIME, Oct. 11] admitted arising in Massachusetts by local time, but taking trains by Standard Time; omitted to state if inconvenienced. Chief Justice Taft, humorous, discreet, expressed inability to see where any hardships were imposed by the present system; more specifically found that no penalties were carried by it under the law; dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction...