Word: discreeter
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Manhattan's latest watering hole is hidden away in the basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel behind a heavy wooden door with only a discreet brass name plate to identify it. Designer Cecil Beaton has maintained the speakeasy image by decking the joint out with dark red and green wallpaper and gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues...
...music is thundering and the light show irrelevant. Jeff Beck a streaming presence jerking, in sweat, on his guitar laying sheet after sheet of sound authoritatively down. The great Nicky Hopkins in one corner of the stage hunched over piano holding together the music with his discreet and rippling underpinning. Mick Waller on drums, his eyes fixed on Beck, face contorting, eyes glazed, his arms chopping, producing a sharp and clear rattling as each drumbeat rams more or less neatly into Beck's flying notes. Rod Stewart, the singer, a man of flinty beauty, and a fertile smile...
Several other suitors were considered by Vassar. The selective all-girls school (enrollment 1,600) rebuffed a discreet pass from Princeton,* then flirted with a proposal to move to New Haven. Ultimately, the school decided not to give up its wooded 950-acre campus in Poughkeepsie...
Dial-a-Cabbage. Vast areas of Harrods' 13 acres of floor space stand empty, mysteriously transmuting the hustle-bustle of commerce into an air of stately calm. A discreet staff of 5,000, meticulously trained to avoid the abrupt "May I help you" approach, murmurs the softest sell on either side of the Atlantic...
...moille is the lesser-known, quiet, cozy sister of the other two. Originally a private house that was converted into a 115-room hotel just before World War I, its deeply faithful clientele includes discreet European aristocrats, U.S. fashion buyers and greats of the international music world...