Word: indiscreetness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Department is forced to respect, and the court martial may be purely a matter of naval routine. Whatever the circumstances, the best one can wish for is a speedy termination of an affair, which will add nothing to the cause of under-standing among nations in a world where indiscreet statements are often the cause of uncalled for ill-feeling...
...many enemies throughout his State, somehow got hold of Dr. Ochsner's confidential letter. Governor Long is ex-officio an administrator of Charity Hospital. As such he last month conducted a secret "trial" of Dr. Ochsner. Medical administrators of the hospital pleaded for the culprit, called his letter indiscreet, declared that "severe action would annihilate him." But hard-bitten little Governor Long said: "I have given Tulane University everything when asked for and have been complimented for what I have done. I should have absolute loyalty. . . ." Dr. Ochsner must get out of Charity Hospital, he decreed...
Every self-disrespecting U. S. city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year...
...around the office of the Denver Post, where once trod fleshy, practical-joking, hard-boiled H. H. Tammen. Nor will a Hearstman be any novelty to Publisher Bonfils, who imported a setting of them in the Yellow '905 when he first began to make his paper a hissing to indiscreet Denver citizens...
Even though the Latin temperament seems to prefer outbreaks in favor of autocracy, and the Nordic revolts a means to further Democracy, the younger generation of the world reverts to riots as the logical method of expression. It is Youth's eternal privilege to be indiscreet...