Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Discreet Career Girl. O-Koi, second of the geishas, tailored her kimono-clad ambitions along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
Jawaharlal Nehru, who finds himself out of patience with many of his countrymen's cherished practices, considers fasting "an incomprehensible thing." But he kept a discreet silence last week through his friend Desai's ordeal...
...Francisco newsboy, eying a pile of free copies of the Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only...
...businessmen active in political affairs runs much deeper than one season's mood. U.S. businessmen, whether Democrats or Republicans, have a deep-seated aversion to political activity. Even in the last presidential campaign an upsurge in political interest on the part of businessmen generally took the form of discreet, behind-the-scenes aid. Few businessmen shrink from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from open support of political parties for fear of offending customers, stockholders...
...exception of Eugene Harden, the characters in Madame Solaria are lightly sketched; Natalia herself seems at times as insubstantial as the rustle of a petticoat. Yet the author of this period piece has a sure feeling for time and place, and for the rigid standards of behavior that made discreet intrigue flourish. The book treats the difficult theme with a kid-glove restraint that conveys the atmosphere of tension mounting to tragedy...