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...daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
...collegiate football at present on an equal footing with professional baseball. If these two outstanding American colleges and their graduates do not have enough self interest to curb such wild statements by unauthorized persons they at least owe it to their fellow sportsmen in collegiate athletics to be more discreet...
Princesses, low at your feet we'd fall, (Our friends all tell us we're too discreet...
...like to see him taking his week-end tramps among the woods and hills, . . . always alone, except for two stalwart figures that follow at a discreet distance, his hat off, his cherry-wood pipe in full blast?he once confessed that he had never given more than a shilling for a pipe?and his long strides devouring the miles with an air of lusty exhilaration. He is English to the core and loves his country for the right things...
...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...