Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit to Ankara last month of Persia's King of Kings (TIME, July 2) they sat up over the cards, Turks learned last week, until two hours before breakfast. "I may say that the winnings of our Ghazi ["The Victorious One" ] were large,'' confided a discreet Turkish official, ''but, as is his invariable custom, he refused to keep his gambling gains...
...Discreet Palace officials observed that "seldom has a visitor displayed such charming informality." King George, they said, was at the tea table but most of the animated conversation was between Queen Mary and Mrs. Roosevelt who rattled on not only about her son the President, but about his children and his children's children...
...prayer re-echoed from St. George's chapel adjoining Windsor Castle one day last week as a man with darkening circles around his eyes motored over to have lunch with King George and Queen Mary. "Happy birthday, David!" cried members of the Royal Family but the discreet Castle staff had nothing to say when asked "Were there 40 candles on the Prince of Wales's birthday cake...
Rich, imperious and never a man to feign false modesty, Cardinal O'Connell is discreet in print. He tells how. a poor boy of eleven, he worked for one morning in a Lowell cotton mill, but he fails to mention his present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal...
Plumpish Dr. George Wehnes Calver, official attending physician to the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, talked very small last week. Friends in both chambers spoke to him affectionately: "It is a low-down mean shame. . . ." But Dr. Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws...