Word: indiscreetness
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Borah v. Hoover. One thing President Hoover definitely did hear: a statement by an indiscreet newsman to the effect that Senator Borah, following a White House visit fortnight ago, had told reporters that he had informed President Hoover that 17 U. S. District Attorneys should be promptly dismissed and that the President had replied that five were already out. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah a letter. Senator Borah replied. What the letters said was closely guarded, though it was Secretary George Akerson at the White House who revealed the exchange. Best guess as to their contents: President Hoover asked Senator...
...bloody snow, still alive. At the hospital, Fugate, his armbone shattered, raised his right forefinger to swear to the identity of six of his assailants. The six, all kinsmen of murdered Lawyer Watkins, voluntarily surrendered. Only then did the lynched man die, making murderers of indiscreet lynchers who had broken Lynching Rule No. 1: "Do not leave your man until you are absolutely sure he is finished...
...plot of "Her Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
...English newsman inquired if the British publi; were to enjoy the famed, picturesque Dawesian vocabulary. "Hell's bells, no!" said the discreetly indiscreet Ambassador. "I'm a diplomat now. I've got to don kid glove manners...
...acquire White Rock. Recently she presented the scrip at the General Land Office, received her patent to White Rock, was thoroughly happy. Said she: "I never owned an island before. It seems even now that it may be the result of a belated reading of 'Cinderella' and an indiscreet rarebit. I am quite frankly undecided what to do with it and am open to suggestions...