Word: indiscreetness
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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...
...being one of the President's close advisers," it went on to state the obvious fact that the conservative Democrats in Congress are no New Dealers and sooner or later must break with the New Deal. When Southern Congressmen grew angry, the President had to put his indiscreet adviser in his place...
During the last four years a wealthy, 56-year-old grandmother, living in the peaceful seclusion of her New Mexican ranch, has published three books that belong with the most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies. Creator of these solemnly indiscreet records is Mabel Dodge Luhan, patroness of art, friend of D. H. Lawrence and of other literary great, wife of a Taos Indian whose folkways she recounted in Winter in Taos. The scandalous books are the successive volumes of her Intimate Memories. This is a long manuscript, about which lurid literary legends are steadily accumulating. It now reposes in the safe...