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...staff of the Hospital to attend to "the small things in every single department that could possibly contribute the best work-from the initial diagnosis to the use of the knife." Thrifty, but not businesslike, he has left to his brother the management of their donations and of that discreet but widespread publicity which taught the world the excellence of the mousetraps of Rochester. Charles is inflexible in body as in brain. When asked to face the camera, he leaves his feet planted in the direction they are taking, rotates his chunky body solemnly from the hips. His brother...
...discreet and inaccessible nook of Hyde Park, London, Premier Stanley Baldwin unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson...
...Some of us, therefore, intend to celebrate our Yale anniversary in Montreal, with discreet and well-ordered dinners, such as are customary and lawful in civilized societies; and by staying away from New Haven...
...Some of us, therefore, intend to celebrate our Yale anniversary in Montreal, with discreet and well-ordered dinners, such as are customary and lawful in civilized societies; and by staying away from New Haven. Newell Martin. Huntington, May 25, 1925. --New York Times...
...still only 42 years old, he went home, crowned with honor, was made Archbishop of Jaroslav and Vilna. Those were the days of Pobiedonostsev and Devialkovsky, two of the most tyrannical ecclesiastics in the history of a tyrannical church. Basil, now Archbishop Tikhon, was liberal in his views but discreet in utterance. He advanced. Finally, during the interregnum between Romanov and Lenin, Dr. Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch...