Word: discreeter
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...sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish M. P.'s on the carpets of their homes during the Christmas holidays and make them come clean. About results of this discreet procedure the Scottish Press will speak in its own time, tersely...
...last week he had many warm personal welcomes as he made his rounds. The important men he had to see included: Chile's Foreign Minister, Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, formerly Ambassador to Washington, one of the wisest men in South American diplomacy, so discreet and so personally disinterested that the diplomats of other nations continually ask his aid and advice...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, Comrade Konstantin Yurenev who of course flashed it to Litvinoff. The cost of this blunder to the Japanese fishing industry, according to its irate Tokyo tycoons last week, will...
Humor was not absent from the Court of Claims last week. When a particularly preposterous family tree had been reeled off in its entirety, the eminent King's counsel, Gavin Turnbull Simonds, observed with a discreet cough-quite as in Gilbert & Sullivan- "I fancy we have run into a bar sinister somewhere here...
...English literary figures. Filling the first and best part of his book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict, but in a subtle resentment at intellectual slights, does Swinnerton reveal the hazards of his literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise...