Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chummy, as members of the Royal family insist upon calling Chef Gabriel Tschumi, is Swiss. When his father, a professor, was killed in an accident, Chummy became apprenticed to the Royal kitchens, has been there 34 years. Discreet, he would say no more last week than "I want to resign...
...dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy. I was alone, but at least three charming feminine creatures occupied the continuous lounge across the narrow room, and I watched them with discreet enjoyment and satisfaction. I was, it seemed, at last actually growing...
Between glad-handing friends, being photographed, holding confabs, Al Smith found time to play golf every day. His efforts to keep the nomination away from Roosevelt were subtle, discreet. Except for the Hague broadside, Smith headquarters seemed to be only pro-Smith, anti-nobody...
...quietly that correspondents covering the Geneva Disarmament Conference failed to note it, was a League of Nations report showing which countries are the worst offenders as exporters of armaments & munitions- or rather which were the worst in 1930, the last year covered by the League's discreet report. World's worst offender was Great Britain which did 30% of the total arms peddling, next France (13%), third the U. S. (12%). The report, extremely conservative, estimated the total volume of the arms traffic in 1930 at only $55,200,-ooo, called attention to the fact that this represented...
First setback to the Squires career was a royal commission appointed to investi gate the young Premier's acts in 1923 ? with the discreet result that he was permitted to retire from politics to his nourishing legal practice. In 1928 he came back, has been Premier ever since...