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Respectful Englishmen welcomed the Agent General at Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given...
...every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings, yet the overtone was unmistakable?Lady Astor home...
...survey, conceived we must believe, in a vengeful spirit, shows that Harvard men far from shunning their Cambridge neighbors, far from ignoring the fact of their existence, succumb in swathes at the first discreet mating call heard from them following Commencement...
...Discreet, even reticent, the Wall Street Journal deceived no one who knows the coal mining district of Scranton, Pa., and neighboring, suburban Dalton. For as every Scrantonian knows, a major glory of Dalton is the large, old house (recently remodeled) of Salt Tycoon Mortimer B. Fuller. And as every saltman knows, the Fullers (Grandfather Edward L., Father...
...BACHELOR FATHER-A thoroughly immoral and entirely discreet comedy about an English squire who breeds not wisely but very well (TIME, March...