Word: indiscreetness
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When British motor club members drive their Stanley Steamers over the seventy mile route, the pace is slow and racing is forbidden. Genevieve puts some extra pressure into the yearly pageantry with an indiscreet race between two old rivals whose jealousies extend from women to automobiles. Breakdowns, sly tricks, and unlikely delays plague the contestants and usually amuse the audience. The humor of racing in cars of 1910 vintage has an almost amazing durability, at least for about three-fourths of the journey...
...early records of the college contain many references to punishment of students and reprimanding of faculty and presidents for indiscreet references to the scriptures. The following was one of the regulations in 1643: Every schollar shall be present in his Tutor's Chamber at the seventh houre in the morning, immediately after the sound of the bell, at his opening the scripture and prayer. So also at the fifth houre at night, and then give account of his own private reading in the scriptures...
...experts were muttering in mutinous tones about the Age of 3-D and its ramifications: ¶Producer Nunnally (The Senator Was Indiscreet) Johnson, on writing stories for a wide screen: "Just sit down at the typewriter. Only, from now on, put the paper in sideways...
...unpopular "Shrimp Queen." "Madame de Réthy, we are sure," snapped the Socialist Le Peuple, "was primarily responsible for this detestable incident. She is exercising a palace influence to which she has no right." Furthermore, said Le Peuple, her opennecked blouses and slacks are "provocative" and her behavior "indiscreet and boisterous. The government must regulate her status...
...that people are living in such conditions." To Health Minister de Taeye he said: "Something must be done about it." Asked next day exactly what he was going to do about it, De Taeye said brightly: "The government is preparing plans. When will they be ready? It would be indiscreet...