Word: discreeter
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...stage; he was writing verse which, like a drink on a hot day or a kiss on a cold night, gave pleasure and satisfaction. That other rule-breaker, T.S. Eliot, had written a magnificent and entertaining verse play in The Cocktail Party; but its verse was so discreet that it usually sounded like prose, and its sobering moral sent the audience stumping out of the theater on its knees, pricing bad bargains out of the corner of its eyes. Fry's audiences prance out into the welcoming night, their eyes peeled for a pretty girl...
...Discreet Backtracking. But it was soon clear that the scheme was a blunder that made almost everyone quite unhappy. If any Forest Hill pupils had not previously been aware of a distinction between Jew and gentile, they were certainly aware of it now. Said one gentile student: "The adults stirred up the fuss...
...mild dismay, young Boswell was always aspiring to virtue and yielding to vice. In church, his mind and eye kept roving toward pretty women ("What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man!"), and London prostitutes found him an easy conquest. What seemed at first a discreet affair with an actress brought him down with a venereal disease that kept him under treatment for five weeks. But nothing could discourage his sensual appetite for long, and the Journal is thick with accounts of his cheap and hasty liaisons. Boswell had been .in London less than two weeks when...
...proud car owner," Manhattan's elegant Black, Starr & Gorham last week ran a discreet ad. At prices starting at $30, motorists were offered car keys of gold with religious, scenic or auto insignia "to do justice to [their] shiny possession." Snappiest model: a miniature Cadillac with movable wheels, ruby tail lights, diamond headlights and a key that retracts into the chassis. Price...
...late great Justice did not always conform to the censor's standard. Polishing up The Magnificent Yankee last week, Producer Armand (Ambush) Deutsch admitted that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from the parade of Justice Holmes's law secretaries: the 1929 incumbent, Alger Hiss...