Word: discreeter
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...pure intellectual, how pure!" cried Sarajevo's discreet public mourner, an adept at praising heroes of the assassination in terms to which the police can take no exception. Though he himself killed no man, Vladimir Gachinovich, son of an Orthodox priest, was said in Serbian police reports of 1913 to "hold half the revolutionary youth of Bosnia in his hands." Sarajevo was then the capital of Bosnia and still treasured in the town are copies of the celebrated pamphlet, The Death of a Hero, by Vladimir Gachinovich, glorifying the assassination in 1910 of the Governor of Bosnia...
...visit to Ankara last month of Persia's King of Kings (TIME, July 2) they sat up over the cards, Turks learned last week, until two hours before breakfast. "I may say that the winnings of our Ghazi ["The Victorious One" ] were large,'' confided a discreet Turkish official, ''but, as is his invariable custom, he refused to keep his gambling gains...
...Discreet Palace officials observed that "seldom has a visitor displayed such charming informality." King George, they said, was at the tea table but most of the animated conversation was between Queen Mary and Mrs. Roosevelt who rattled on not only about her son the President, but about his children and his children's children...
...prayer re-echoed from St. George's chapel adjoining Windsor Castle one day last week as a man with darkening circles around his eyes motored over to have lunch with King George and Queen Mary. "Happy birthday, David!" cried members of the Royal Family but the discreet Castle staff had nothing to say when asked "Were there 40 candles on the Prince of Wales's birthday cake...
Rich, imperious and never a man to feign false modesty, Cardinal O'Connell is discreet in print. He tells how. a poor boy of eleven, he worked for one morning in a Lowell cotton mill, but he fails to mention his present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal...