Word: discreetly
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Whether the discreet little Bishop thereupon suppressed a loud and indignant squawk is not a matter of record. But last week the incident supplied him with a lively topic for a speech before-the France-America Society. La Belle France, mother of La Fayette and De Grasse and more recently a noble Ally had, in his opinion, been grossly outraged...
When he arrived at Albany, instead of maintaining a discreet and maidenly silence, Senator Roosevelt immediately began bucking Tammany Boss Charles Murphy's machine on the election to the U. S. Senate of William ("Blue-Eyed Billy") Sheehan, leader of Buffalo's Democracy. For weeks New York's legislative affairs were at a standstill but Mr. Sheehan was beaten and Mr. Roosevelt emerged from the fray as an insurgent anti-Tammany Democrat...
...discreet battle against Persian backwardness shrewd Shah Reza, "The King of Kings," scored again last week against the country's Moslem hierarchy...
Brought to U. S. listeners "by the makers of G. Washington Coffee'' last week was not the usual Sherlock Holmes program but a Christmas Eve broadcast of the Sistine Choir from Rome. Punctuated with buzzings, cracklings and discreet references to G. Washington Coffee, this first international broadcast of the famed choir was arranged last year by the personal representative of the company's President George Washington, devout Roman Catholic, at a reputed cost of $10,000. Though reception was poor, the broadcast pleased the Catholic public: the Sistine Choir is traditionally associated with the papacy...
...time U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor-is able. When Ambassador Edge has no time to hang a baby's nipple around his neck and make a night of it with important visitors-Little Bob does this duty (see cut). But his chief functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed on the He de France last week the grateful newshawks gave him a fountain pen, gold mounted, suitably inscribed...