Word: circumspection
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...lost plays by Greek Playwright Menander (342-291 B. c.). On Brynos, one of the lesser islands of the Greek Archipelago, lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy. "She cited often the saying of Plato that the true philosophers are the young men of their age. 'Not,' she would...
...clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...
Eventually the "Wee Frees," canny and circumspect, passed a purely general resolution. "The Fourth Commandment," they indisputably proclaimed, "is binding with out exception. . . ." Conscience-stricken citizens thumbed their Bibles, read...
When a university is endowed for $82,820,000, when a tycoon like Edward Stephen Harkness has given it $13,000,000 for an educational experiment, it is sure to be circumspect in its choice of treasurer. And Harvard University had to choose a new treasurer when Charles Francis ("Charlie Ad") Adams was appointed U. S. Secretary of the Navy...
Today "Sam" White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...