Word: indiscreetness
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...scandal in England. In 1912 it was charged that Premier Asquith, Chancellor George and other Cabinet officers had profited improperly through promotion of the Marconi companies. The conclusion of the matter was that blame could not be attached to the inventor and that the Cabinet members had merely been "indiscreet...
...mused the great but indiscreet poet, Byron...
...that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity are balanced on a knife edge, and very little might turn the balance either way. Indiscreet speech by prominent members of the Government or failure of the Government to disavow extremist speeches might check the recovery of trade and confidence." Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, Kt, G.C.B., G.B.E., P.C., LL.D., aged 49, was born in India. He was educated at the Oxford Military School and at Edinburgh...
...girls are going to the dogs; our laboring men are going to work with empty dinner pails, while our farmers starve, and the middlemen wax fat on exorbitant prices . . ." Whether the Colorado Legislature considered it presumptuous to tell God what He must already know, or whether they thought it indiscreet to disclose just how far things had gone in "God's Own Country", is a matter for conjecture. Nevertheless, the fact remains, if one has any opinions about he distressing condition of affairs in the United States, one must not pray about them--at least not in Colorado...
...story of the play is simple, but somewhat improbable. The plot opens with a quarrel between Lady Haden and her husband over an indiscreet love affair of hers. The object of this affection. Edward Thayer, is utterly unworthy, a cheat at cards and a fortune hunter. He has letters of Lady Haden's, uses them, and as a result, she and her husband are separated. Two years later she is discovered in New York, living on the proceeds of the sale of her jewels and by her wits. Various matrimonial opportunities present themselves, and after considerable cold calculation, she finally...