Word: indiscreet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...already been three times through Thayer in search of subscribers, and were intending to attack Hollis and Stoughton en masse the next day, called for immediate action in the Crimson ranks. I will say, by way of parenthesis, that this Advocate news was "given away" by an indiscreet member of that board, who was severely reprimanded by his colleagues at the next meeting. Well, the lot fell upon me to start on a subscription-tour that very night, and off I went with a large notebook, a buoyant step, and a light heart...
...than I observed that although this lady was on my right hand, my friend's oldest boy, to my misfortune, was on my left. The boy is now about seven years old, and possesses many of his father's good qualities, but he has inherited from his mother an indiscreet zeal for chatting and propounding questions which, however becoming in the more mature and attractive, is out of place in the young and the uninformed. The humorous stories in Punch that relate the inopportune sayings of precocious children have often afforded me amusement, but the blunders that fell from...
...occupants of Thayer were startled, last Wednesday night, by an explosion, caused by an indiscreet Freshman, who was experimenting with an oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe...
Romantic, but most indiscreet...