Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...
...Denby, however, is not as discreet. His "professional pryer--in" (the roles are reversed) is forced to witness the horror of rhyming "ethics" with "anaesthetics!" Then, very decently, he succumbs...