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...Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose." On the green, "Go ahead, you may propose." After no end of gay squealing and innocent chaff to the discreet rhythms of Jack Harris, the party wound up at 3:30 a.m.-and many a drowsy deb was up and in uniform at 7 a.m. to get on with her war work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Instead of Feathers | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Enter "Bibi." In a marriage of convenience forced upon him by his family, Carol had not the slightest intention of remaining a faithful or even a discreet husband. He made no attempt to disguise his many extra-marital affairs, and few Rumanians, to whom mistresses are certainly not unusual,* would have given his peccadilloes a second thought had not His Royal Highness happened one night in the Cercul Militar to meet a voluptuous young woman named Magda Lupescu. Daughter of a small shopkeeper, divorced wife of an Army lieutenant, she also happened to be half-Jewish in a country stridently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week the trustees of hard-up Hopkins voted to accept the Shriver bequest, kept a discreet silence as to when, how and by whom the Baltimore Beauties would be immuralized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Waiting to greet them was Swedish King Gustaf V, but discreet silence on tense public occasions is the duty of a constitutional monarch, and His Majesty left it to Stockholm City Councilman Frederick Storm to tell Finland's President what all Swedes were thinking: "If anything wrong should happen to one Scandinavian country it would be of the utmost importance to all of them. Any wound made on any nation in our group would always be an open wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...women pick up general magazines they do so for much the same reasons. Editors of these magazines try to sell the public their own private blend of diverting stories, entertaining skits and topically informative articles. And most of them feel that the recipe is bettered by the addition of discreet dashes of something more unconventional, personal, exciting-verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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