Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost concealed by this carnival gaiety and charm is a polished satine of Viennese high life. The gossipy grande dame who longs for the less discreet scandals of the good old days and young wife who doesn't shiver with only a muff for protection, are digs at a frivolous society...
Twinkling with discreet mystery was Cornell University's retiring President Livingston Farrand last week, as he told the press about one L. H. Anon. Eight years ago, said President Farrand, he found in his mail a cashier's check for $20,000. It was accompanied by a letter signed L. H. Anon, explaining that Cornell might use the money as it saw fit but warning President Farrand not to inquire into the donor's identity. Cornell cashed the check. Next year President Farrand got another...
...victims of the Quetta earthquake and an additional $9,000 to the academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan Sir Akbar Hydari, several of whose adroit coups have jolted Islam as well...
...Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...
...famed "Chiang's Own," smartly drilled by Germans, far better equipped than any other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble ever occurred. When in Sian...