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...evidence of the years since the beginning of the House plan, the accusation of immorality is completely without foundation. Whatever scandals have occurred have not in any case been caused by "one-couple" parties. It is unfair to inconvenience the majority of students because a small minority has been indiscreet. The whole movement bears the stamp of "Watch-and Ward" and is not in keeping with Harvard customs which have always presupposed a mature and responsible student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO EVIL THINKS | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

...should be invited to send a German delegation this week to London. This implied a return to the week's early British wish to hatch new accords with egg-breaking Germany. Simultaneously going forward in London last week were Eden-Flandin conversations of a most discreet character. An indiscreet French underling even said. "Of course it will not be necessary to bring sanctions to bear on Germany if we can get something better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germans Preferred | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Promptly the speech was rushed to the Attorney General. The hour was late and in some puzzlement the A. G. and his staff scrutinized its wholly innocuous phrases, wondering what the P. M. could possibly have thought might be indiscreet or dangerous. This labor having been completed, it turned out next morning that God-fearing Orator Baldwin had meant to remind himself by his marginal note to: "Refer again to Almighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: P. M. to A. G. | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Widow from Monte Carlo (Warner) frames the noteworthy Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...felt appeared in last month's Catholic University Bulletin. Calmly running the risk of scandalizing other Catholics, Bishop Ryan's able young assistant, Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, labeled the retiring Rector "intolerant," "restless," "indiscreet," "inhuman" and possessed of a "superiority complex." Excerpts from his editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Send-off | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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