Word: discreeter
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Generally speaking, there are three types of organists. There are those who have no objection to the thunderously schmalzy organs, full of trick sound effects, of the cinema palaces. Second are the vast majority of church organists who cannot bear the cinemorgans but will make discreet use of the variously colored "romantic" effects possible on all modern-style organs. Third are the growing number of classicists, who favor the 17th-Century style of organ used by the great Johann Sebastian Bach - and who make modern-style organs sound as much as possible like Bach organs, or play instruments made...
...time to make such a change. In fact, they said, harmony in the top commands was so smooth that the Navy did not want to risk rocking the boat even by talking about it. As for postwar unification, the Navy's answer was a discreet "Well, maybe...
...Match Co., and that the first individual named was Diamond's secretive, 67-year-old engineer president, William Armstrong Fairburn. Match King Fairburn, who works most of the time at his secluded, tree-hedged ranch in California's Ojai Valley and rarely appears in Diamond's discreet Manhattan offices, has run Diamond like a Central American dictator since 1910, when he was called in to figure out how to make matches without poisoning match workers...
Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their prime. But, unlike some of his other books, The Razor's Edge is not a potboiler. Nor is it a mess of dotage. It deserves to rank after Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) as one of his three major novels...
...following squib is supposed to be the straight dope, even though it comes from the Chicago Tribune. "Only last Saturday night, recalled the witness, he saw '100 semi-officers of the Navy' eating at Barney's. He later identified the semi officers' as onsigns." Leave us be discreet, Duffy...