Word: circumspection
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...Chicago Tribune, more circumspect, quoted an anonymous "Jewish financier and industrialist...
When a celebrated painter dies, the newspaper obituaries-necessarily circumspect-seldom make mention of that painter's relatives or relationships. The first are apt to be unimportant; the latter, bizarre. But when Mary Cassatt died last week in Paris, notices were full of the careers of the other Philadelphia Cassatts-of her brothers, the late Alexander J., one-time President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of J. Gardner, head of a banking house. Miss Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh in 1855. She was a "U. S. artist" only by courtesy. Her visits to her country were infrequent and of short...
Amid an awful silence, the Fascist majority instantly passed the Premier's motion. The more circumspect Aventines, realizing what was going to follow in a moment, bolted from the Chamber. Those who did not immediately flee, were assaulted by the Fascist deputies, as soon as they finished voting. Many a lock of hair was literally torn from Aventine heads. Many a Fascist boot literally propelled Aventines through the wide portals of the Chamber and down the stairs...
Anecdotes of eighteenth century Blue Laws, when theatre productions were banned in Boston and circumspect managers had to advertise "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", and the like as "moral lectures", were related by Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 in his stereopticon lecture on the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Boston Public Library yesterday afternoon...
During the past week it is certain that the British Government modified its original stand against the Ruhr occupation. This was chiefly on account of unshakable French policy. The tenor of the note takes into account French views and is accordingly " exceedingly circumspect." The change in the attitude of Premier Baldwin is purely diplomatic and will in no way affect the British decision to isolate France in Europe as an extreme measure. To some extent a desire to revivify the Entente Cordiale is responsible for this eleventh-hour shift...