Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When suddenly I discovered the reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie...
...these respects the announced policy is admirable in its promise. The provision excepting students of high examination average from the operation of the selective system is an essential and adequate counterweight thereto, and ought, of course, to be permanent. It does not appear to be a discreet entering wedge in a more thoroughgoing selective policy...
...Haven has been most discreet in its equinoctial diversions compared with certain residents of New Jersey for the dean of one college in that state has been forced to call the law to his aid in maintaining culture and constraining concupiscent collegians from over indulgence in hot dogs and gin neither of which is a nice complement to the other. Indeed, so violent have been the results of such admixtures that the dean has laid a curse upon road-houses and a complaint in the daily press...
...Discreet observers refrained from attributing a motive to King Ferdinand. They noted well a sentence which dropped from his lips on Jan.1, 1926. Gazing down upon his little grandchild, the King remarked, "So this is my New Year. ..." It was obvious to the dullest wit that the baby Prince Michel is not likely to obstruct the policies of Ferdinand of Hphen-zollern-Sigmaringen and Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Ironists recalled that for many years Ferdinand and Marie were estranged by a tertium quid, Helene Vacarescu...
...Damrosch raised his arm and thereafter the assembled audience listened intently for a considerable time. They heard pinguid plati- tudes of the symphonic concert hall resuscitated; they heard discreet echoes of Tschaikowsky, of Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...