Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Citroen, assisted by Baron van Zuylen and clubbable M. Andre de Four-quiers, scored the entries by a discreet system of points which admirably concealed the personal penchants, if any, of the greatest European motor man (150 cars...
...Farrell failed to contradict this interesting and plausible theory. German makers were equally discreet, equally silent. But the suspicion grew that in his latest pilgrimage abroad, Mr. Farrell had played a new role. He had been the reverse of a salesman. For once, he had studied, not how to sell more steel in European markets, but how to export less steel, more wisely...
Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
Long since, the Board banned Dawn as "inexpedient," thus drawing from the London Times a pompous twitter: "What is the nature of the inexpedience? . . . The adjective 'political' instantly suggests itself, and a political censorship, in whatever discreet feathers it be dressed is, in England at least, a remarkably ugly bird...
...Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...