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About the Moochi which London's Imperial (Dance) Society is preparing for release in October as a "sensation," the Dancing Masters maintained a discreet silence. It was demonstrated at the Commodore, but mindful of the Imperial Society's warning that it must not be pirated, they did nothing officially about...
...afternoon of June 25, 1530 the document was read to Charles V as he sat with his court in the small palace chapel at Augsburg. Luther, discreet under the imminence of burning, remained away...
Even had not the late President made it so difficult, William Emlen Roosevelt would never have striven for the prominence of his cousin. His philanthropies, many, were ever discreet. His financial aid, if such existed, to his cousin (who though well off was never as rich as he) was never given publicity. William Emlen Roosevelt was a Roosevelt of Roosevelt & Sons, founded in 1797. He was not, even in Death, a Roosevelt of the front page...
When cornered with the question, "But whom do you think Juliana will choose as her Prince Consort?" discreet Dutch gentlemen usually answer, "Perhaps her second cousin, Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach Schoenberg. He is five years older than she and that is good. The Queen Mother favors the match, I hear. She wants to marry her granddaughter to her sister's son. So many foreign Royalties lack qualities we demand of a Dutch prince...
...receive the title Ordine Supremo del Christo, a Catholic honor far more distinguished than the Laetare Medal, awarded last year to Alfred Emanuel Smith, and this year (last week) to Frederick P. Kenkel, St. Louis editor (see p. 40). The Brady donations to the Vatican were many, large, discreet. A constant visitor to his last bedside was Patrick Cardinal Hayes, who conducted the funeral service...