Word: circumspectly
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...Owen West of Illinois became Secretary of the Interior without reasonable doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
...processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper him in adjusting with nice precision scales which are sensitive to minute infinitesimals of a miligram. Naturally Technician Irénée du Pont is nonchalant though extremely circumspect in the presence of high explosives-a major product of the du Pont industries. His coolness in the presence of trinitrotoluene famed as "T. N. T.," does not however carry over into social intercourse. Aboard the Lutzow, last week, he displayed affability in small talk, learning where chemicals were concerned...
...cobalt southern horizon of Hawaii. It was the U. S. battle fleet, 82 ships strong, steaming to Honolulu and Pearl Harbors for spring maneuvers. On the way out from California, an "enemy" had been met and adroitly disposed of. Now, nearing shore, the great fleet moved in circumspect battle formation, a giant circle of ships with the dreadnaughts in the centre, the cruisers in the perimeter and the carrier Langley out ahead releasing planes to scout far ahead for lurking trouble...
...Bertrand Russell is young and pretty, and "The Right to Be Happy" (Harper) proved her circumspect Neither she nor her husband could faint the morals of the undergraduate for, if anyone believes the smart columnist, there is no morality, there is only good taste...