Word: indiscreetness
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...disloyal" Germans, particularly those who have fled the country, mostly Jews, Communists and Socialists. By a stroke of the Chancellor's pen the Cabinet seized power to deprive all such persons of German citizenship and confiscate their property. "What we shall take from the Jews," grinned an indiscreet Treasury official, "will be a big help in balancing the budget." Even before the Cabinet decrees passed, uniformed Prussian police pounced last week on five relatives of pouchy-eyed old Philipp Scheidemann, the Socialist who proclaimed the German Republic in 1918, served as its first Chancellor and recently fled to Czechoslovakia...
...statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan were dismissed as being no more than "indiscreet." But the Court did find that Mrs. Jelke had been cruel to her husband when she cursed him, bit his ear, tore his shirt; that Jelke had been cruel to her when he blackened her eye, abused her in the presence of others. Said the Judge...
Because of an indiscreet act provided at a recent banquet of the Harvard Bowling League, the club may not be ale to hold its annual dinner next year. Officials in Lehman Hall have expressed strong disapproval of the conduct of this year's dinner, which was attended by most of the male employees of Harvard University...
...such-a more ingenious and less amusing satire on the dignified, dangerous asininities of diplomacy and also a book that deserves a better name. Author Nicolson retails his solemn state secrets as one having had authority. Onetime diplomatist for Britain, he resigned before yielding to the temptation to be indiscreet...
...Commons-C. Heard fiery David Lloyd George retort in fighting terms to Noble Lords who think he has been indiscreet about keeping Cabinet secrets (see above...