Word: discreeter
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Handsome, meticulous in dress and manner, tactful and discreet, boyish Peter Townsend in almost no time was proving himself indispensable as confidant and courtier. "If I had had a son," George VI once said, "I'd have liked a boy like Townsend." It was inevitable almost from the first that Margaret, who spent much of her girlhood close to her father's side, should have come to share his affection...
...understanding man. Born on a poor little 120-acre farm over at Falling Waters in Putnam County, Donald was squeezed out of farming by the size of his family. He went to work selling Bibles-three different editions for teachers, three for home use and, along with them, a discreet book on sex fundamentals. By the time he married Thelma Carver, Donald had a job selling "Checkerboard" feeds for Ralston Purina, later was hired by the Armour Fertilizer Works, for which he is now district sales manager. Perhaps because he never had a chance to do much of it, Donald...
...Hotel is "stately, dignified, charming" and "suavely staffed." Located in the heart of Canada's most loyal citadel of British ways and manners, the hotel greets its well-mannered guests with a massive display of paneled walls, beamed ceilings and straight-backed chairs, serves them tea to the discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...
Beyond such hints, however, the discreet press cannot and will not go until given leave by the palace itself, a signal now expected in mid-October, when the royal family returns from Scotland and the announcement comes out of Eden's pocket for the public to read...
There are too many businessmen, said Randall before the 81st annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, who "boast of free enterprise" while they "sabotage the competitive system." The "man who makes the discreet telephone call to a competitor before he puts in the new price is asking for the nationalization, the socialization that he so abhors...