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Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
...they went to one of Reykjavik's three dance halls, the girls would consent to dance with them, but would not be escorted home by them. If a girl were in discreet enough to accept an Englishman, she would have all her hair shaved off, like Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there...
...nearly dropped his bow. The bewildered audience couldn't tell whether all of Schönberg's "unplayable" notes were being played or not. When it was over, the orchestra looked embarrassed, the audience, impressed by an obvious feat of strength and skill, drowned out a few discreet hisses with well-bred applause...
...show - and inherit - wide differences of personality. Gorillas like to thump their chests. Both gorillas and chimpanzees do crude dances and rhythmic poundings, but orangs and gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species are noticeable...