Word: discreeter
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When Editor Mushlitz got Sue's column he called her up, asked her to write a feature story, promised: "I'll put it on page 1 and give you a by-line." Sue said no. Next Sunday, discreet Sue's column said: "This petite, vivacious princess graciously gave me a message . . . because she is particularly interested in young people and their problems. . . . She said: 'Kindness and self-discipline are insurance against loneliness. . . . Wasting energy on parties is silly at any age . . . unless the art of conversation is developed...
...reciprocal responsiveness of Jewry and Protestantism is one of the finest and most grateful developments in contemporary American culture. ... As between Protestants and Catholics the situation stands otherwise. In terms of reciprocity, the results are negligible. The Catholic contact with this movement has been hardly more than a discreet gesture with the finger tips. ... Its reserved cooperation in the interfaith movement has been utilized more for purposes of placing Catholicism in a good light before the general community, and especially of breaking down Protestant 'prejudice,' than for self-examination as to whether it might be, here or there...
...Senatorial geese quacked, the Mississippi fox prowled the cloakrooms, his manner courteously persuasive, his approach discreet and chummy. At last he wangled enough commitments from Senators that, if the final vote got too close, they would switch to his side...
Navy men kept a discreet silence on the indictments but an anonymous Navy spokesman said cryptically: ''It is public knowledge that Bausch & Lomb are valuable to national defense. We'd hate to see the plant blown...
Everyone in San Francisco knows what Gump's is. Gump's is a discreet, three-floored store on Post Street, with a notable array of Oriental art, the best collection of jade in the U. S. On its second floor last week Gump's put on a show drawn from its own rich stock, "Thirty-three Centuries of Chinese Art," which it claimed no single museum or collection in the world could entirely parallel...