Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actress Anglin's discreet linking of voice and gesture is in the grand tradition of acting, a rare delight in the modern theatre. But Playwright Esme Wynne-Tyson's gusts of passion are too like the winds of old melodrama. They proceed from an artificial churning contraption...
Charles Curtis of Kansas likes to have a discreet and well-trained young woman as his administrative assistant, so last week he appointed Miss Lola M. Williams of Kansas, long his senatorial secretary, to be the first woman to enjoy the majestic title of "Secretary to the President of the United States Senate...
...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
...Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand...