Word: discreeter
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Trinidad Perez Franco was routed out of comfortable obscurity by Rio newsmen, who tried to make her talk about her famed brother Francisco in Spain, got a discreet reply: "I have not seen Francisco since 1912." But Franco's middle-aged expatriate sister, who runs a suburban fruit store for fun ("I like the colors"), was more colorfully quoted by neighbors: "To hell with Francisco. . . . He was always a little effeminate...
Lady Rothermere is not always discreet about the things she hears at her private board meetings. Confidential information given Esmond at the Mail office often finds its way about town. But despite these lapses, Lady Rothermere keeps her eye on the main job-building Rothermere into a better Beaverbrook...
...lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox and the button mouth had his work (the Decline and Fall took him 15 years), his noble friends, his admirers, his elegant, discreet amusements, his intimations of immortality. Small wonder if, as somebody remarked, he frequently mistook himself for the Roman Empire...
...about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...
...looks in vain," says Bowers, "for any convincing evidence that Jefferson availed himself of fine ladies . . . but had he done so he would have been . . . reticent and discreet...