Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...White House (see p. 15). But Mr. Young also said things which made German editors leap joyously next day to the conclusion that he favors scaling down what Germany must pay under the Young Plan because of the increasing price of gold. * Said Tycoon Young, giving a discreet, humorous, personal twist to the awful and stupendous problem which the Young Plan was devised to solve: "It is quite natural in times of depreciated commodity and security prices that debtors should ask for a readjustment of their debts. I would be glad to do so myself. Unfortunately, it takes twice...
...this beast "safe?" Should a 65-year-old monarch ride a prancing, snorting cavalry mount? Discreet inquiry revealed that Steed B102 was nicknamed, by the cavalrymen who were his intimates, "Old Armchair...
...Scoop-of-the-week went to no London or New York paper, instead to the Des Moines (Iowa) Register whose Correspondent Harlan Miller beat Argentine censorship by innocently strolling into the Buenes Aires branch of Pan American Airways Inc. asking: "Can I use your phone?" A call from this discreet firm to an Iowa number roused no Argentine suspicions. Soon Mr. Miller was telling his editor about the fatal wedding breakfast, firing off other graphic scoop details which censorship held up for days...
About the Moochi which London's Imperial (Dance) Society is preparing for release in October as a "sensation," the Dancing Masters maintained a discreet silence. It was demonstrated at the Commodore, but mindful of the Imperial Society's warning that it must not be pirated, they did nothing officially about...
...afternoon of June 25, 1530 the document was read to Charles V as he sat with his court in the small palace chapel at Augsburg. Luther, discreet under the imminence of burning, remained away...