Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...
...Your letter in the CRIMSON of October 10 seemed to me both discreet and excellent. Naturally no local candidate can quite stand from under; he must, every once in a while, show that he is conscious that there is a national ticket in the field and that it has his whole-hearted and burning support. But when a man is running as a candidate of a party which is in some sense liberal locally and is on the same ticket with a national candidate who is reactionary, he has to be very careful where and how he endorses the national...
...solemn, strong, sober; as a leader he is cool, discreet, able. In politics he is a staunch Unionist, and an unbending Imperialist, has "no foolish fastidiousness about democratic principles." As an orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...
Recitals of chamber music are usually serious functions, attended by serious souls, with cultured dignity at heart. Generally there is only discreet applause; high enthusiasm is taboo, also encores...
...Hunter says that the big Christian leaders sidestep such questions. And the young minister does not know whether he should be discreet and get a good job, or whether he should follow his conscience boldly and get into trouble...