Word: discreeter
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...except Committeemen Hamilton and Requa, officially discreet, departed with puffs for the Landon boom. To the growing picture of Governor Landon as a nickel-betting, budget-balancing Great Economizer, Republican Allen last week added his dab: "In my judgment, the time has come again for a stingy man to be President of the U. S. Governor Alf M. Landon is a stingy...
...even if the seller knows that the ultimate destination of the goods is Italy. Even this did not satisfy Rumania. Fortnight ago she received huge publicity for "endorsing sanctions at a heavy sacrifice." Last week the League's news corps tucked into the tails of their dispatches a discreet reservation by the Royal Rumanian Government that, notwithstanding any present or future sanctions obligations, Rumania will continue to sell oil to Italy as long as any other nation in the world does. Whipping himself up to land a racy and readable Geneva story on U. S. front pages United Pressman...
Salutes & Insults. All that His Majesty's Government would say publicly last week was that Parliament will be convened a week early, on Oct. 22, "in the public interest.'' Playing politics, in which all is fair, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin remained in discreet contact with Dictator Benito Mussolini and appeared to believe last week that war will be confined to the colonial sphere, with the League of Nations making peace after the British general election, by which time the extent of Italian conquest should have satisfied Il Duce...
...uncertainties as they found in life itself. The first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society in 1908, outlined a dozen major complications that ranged from the discreet bribing of a radical deputy to a murder committed by a perverse bookbinder. The only theme linking the unrelated incidents and careers was the threat of a general European war which, looming large in the consciousness of more farsighted characters, filled them with a sense of urgency and strain...
This was on the Eden side of the Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally...