Word: discreeter
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...blows the uncle, and a denouement seems certain; but by a little discreet juggling Mary consents to play the game for a few minutes and the uncle takes her for the new member of the family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt...
...crowd on the stage and where the auditorium has all the lofty spaciousness of a doll's house. Necessarily, therefore, the "20 lovesick maidens we" of the opening chorus were reduced to ten, the dragoons enlistment was meagre, the orchestra minute and the vocal acrobatics tempered and discreet. Adding these effects together, it was the impression of the auditors that the Provincetown Patience was too little of a good thing...
...chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...
...silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...
...Your letter in the CRIMSON of October 10 seemed to me both discreet and excellent. Naturally no local candidate can quite stand from under; he must, every once in a while, show that he is conscious that there is a national ticket in the field and that it has his whole-hearted and burning support. But when a man is running as a candidate of a party which is in some sense liberal locally and is on the same ticket with a national candidate who is reactionary, he has to be very careful where and how he endorses the national...