Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the precipitation of events will be discreet and orderly was to be inferred from the fact that Dr. Stresemann an nounced, last week, his intention of going immediately to Cannes, French Riviera, "on a long vacation to restore my health." Although the good Herr Doktor has undoubtedly suffered from influenza of late (TIME, Jan. 30), he is apt to negotiate as well as recuperate in France...
Opened momentously at Paris, last week, the Spring and Summer salon of many a great couturier. No vulgar "fashion display," they permitted only a discreet preview by connoisseurs. Finally connoisseurs in the pre-know could tick off certain Parisian germs of fashion sure to flower into world trends...
...RUINS?Philip Gibbs? Doubleday Doran ($2.50). When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...
...induced a rate war between transportation companies. Twenty years ago such a general war took place. First class fares between New York and Liverpool fell to $22.00 a person-but for a very short time. With trans-Atlantic travel as vast as it is now the companies are too discreet to initiate such a contest...
...government, but also for his life. The end of a Mexican presidential career and of the life of a Mexican president have had a trick of being simultaneous. A Great Interregnum in Mexico is not an impossibility, for when offered nomination for the presidency of the Republic the discreet citizen hands out a typewritten note saying: "I choose to run"--and does...