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...very important person sits, and the charming intellectual lady on his left. After dinner there's some leg stretching. The ladies flow into the drawing room, the men find themselves in a small parlor with brandy in glass balloons in their hands. The less important guests listen with discreet appreciation. The columnist gravely nods, occasionally emits in a word or two the voice of reason...
...prison. The magistrate blandly ruled that there were no grounds for holding Turk Westerling, and freed him on his promise to the cops that he would not go back into hiding. The Netherlands' Minister of Justice promptly protested the ruling. But with police trailing him at a discreet distance, the buccaneer swaggered to freedom-at least for the present...
Eight white-haired members of the French Academy buzzed with discreet excitement last week. In 17 years of meeting between the hours of 2 and 5 every Friday afternoon, carrying on Cardinal Richelieu's instructions to keep the French language pure, they had finished their revision of the As for the ninth edition of the French dictionary, were about to add a new word to the Bs. They agreed that "béquet" ("Printing term. Word or sentence added to correct text.") is now an acceptable French word. Their decision was sent on to the full, 40-man academy...
Post said yesterday that "although there are some generalizations about Harvard I don't like, the firm will stand behind the book." He advised merchants to "be discreet" until official publication date, March 13, when "everything should be cleared...
Next morning, followed at a discreet distance by her husband Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard...