Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...
Editor Bainville declared positively next day, that these words are an expression of Premier Poincarés determination to pay the U. S. $409,000,000 which will be due some months hence, upon U. S. Army stocks purchased by France in 1919. Editor Bainville, a discreet mouthpiece, barely hinted that if Parliament can be induced to make this payment, M. Poincaré will next attempt to lead the deputies and Senators by easy stages down the hard road of general debt repayment...
...daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
...collegiate football at present on an equal footing with professional baseball. If these two outstanding American colleges and their graduates do not have enough self interest to curb such wild statements by unauthorized persons they at least owe it to their fellow sportsmen in collegiate athletics to be more discreet...
Princesses, low at your feet we'd fall, (Our friends all tell us we're too discreet...