Word: indiscreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Yale was exonerated on the two main points of academic freedom and civil liberties, President Angell was sharply rebuked for his letter, characterized as "ill-advised" and "indiscreet," to Dean Weigle of the Divinity School, written when its faculty board was about to vote on Professor Davis's reappointment. The report quoted the following phrase from the letter: "I must say that I think Jerome is becoming an increasing nuisance and my patience is inevitably wearing rather thin...
Carried in a Boston paper yesterday as "circulating about the Capital" was the rumor that newly-appointed Law School Dean Landis had received a letter from President Conant cautioning the S.E.C. chief about "indiscreet" court plan and sit-down statements, which had cost the University $250,000 worth of endowments...
Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...
...last week the issue had developed into a Parliamentary campaign. Among those urging the Government to impose some sort of censorship were a large number of M.P.'s who feel that the Government, under the excuse of throttling ghoulishness, can control "indiscreet"' news about the Royal Family and other public figures...