Word: discreeter
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...nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo by violence, trickery and threats. Even today the discreet British Statesman's Year Book is obliged to list opium, gambling and arrack (strong spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak. The present Rajah, hard, suave, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (grandnephew of Little Boy Brooke) boasts in the British Who's Who that...
...houses only if separate tables were set up for those over twenty-one, and all others were rigidly barred from them by the dining hall administration. Little imagination is required to see that this would be an awkward and an undesirable rule; the spectacle of a headwaitress making discreet inquiries of even the least of her wards, the hand raised in warning, and the embarrassment that would ensue, are enough to mark this expedient for oblivion...
...this agency afresh. Observers waited to see whether the Gordon prize would fall to the General Foods crowd, led by its hustling Chairman Edward F. ("Ed") Hutton and Thomas L. Chadbourne, or to National Distillers for whom, for the sake of his insurance business, James Roosevelt was doing some discreet wangling, including a visit at the White House with his father for the bigwigs...
...husband in whom discreet laziness outweighs valor sees with resignation that his giddy wife is about to be seduced. Unable to do anything about it, he resumes his interrupted...
...Duce had guessed the right way to handle Chancellor Hitler. The French and British were haughtily told by Berlin's Foreign Office that "this intervention in Austro-German difficulties is inadmissible," but the Italian Government received a discreet, direct pledge that German propaganda to Nazify Austria will be toned down...