Word: indiscreetness
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...than a theologian (for some years he was an itinerant lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...
...ally of France, but now that Germany has burst her bonds such an alliance would only antagonize the Reich. After His Majesty's trip to London it remained to secure for Belgium whatever treaty pledges Germany might be willing to make, but Leopold III judged it indiscreet for the King of the Belgians to do anything so sensational as visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat...
...Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes cut him off the air but his broadcasts, always boasting great victories and threatening death & destruction to all enemies, have continued. The Rightist southern front having been mouse-quiet for some time, last week General Queipo de Llano, from his headquarters on Seville's Jesus...
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...