Word: indiscreetness
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...Charles Dickens were alive today and chanced to drop in at the Plymouth Theatre for an evening's entertainment, he might have occasion to substantiate rather ruefully the age-old advice against indiscreet love-letters. One can easily picture the squirming anguish of a sensitive artist treated to a dramatic portrayal, or betrayal, of his most intimate moments. But time has spared him this embarrassment, and an inquisitive public will find added gratification of its curiosity about the truth of the hidden private lives of its great in "Romantic Mr. Dickens...
...loud, indiscreet Mr. Johnson was appointed Assistant Secretary in 1937 and told that he soon would be Secretary; how he and measeling Secretary Harry Hines Woodring were allowed to frustrate each other and the War Department for three racking years-even for gossipy Washington, this was a story too old, too petty in detail to bear extended repetition last week. What Washington did buzz about was the cynical climax of that story...
...Angeles, film society held war relief auctions. In San Francisco Elsa Maxwell gave a party, plugging Foyers du Soldat, incidentally plugging her motion picture The Lady and the Lug. Cinemactresses Constance Bennett, Dolores del Rio, Claudette Colbert were caught by an indiscreet cameraman, sorting old clothes...
...nation would be too much for Canada to offer as a sacrifice on the altar of liberty and freedom. . . . The success of the Allied cause may be very doubtful unless at an early date the active participation of the United States is made effective." Even ever burbling and often indiscreet Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn of Ontario was vexed at this latest burble of old Mr. Conant, explained that he believed his Attorney General had become "deeply disturbed" while witnessing the departure of Canadian officers (one of whom was his brother-in-law and another his private secretary) for service...
...Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state...