Word: indiscreetness
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...give certain phases of intercollegiate athletics the public is none too sympathetic. Such outbursts as that which appears in "Liberty" today is far from a decided benefit to the situation. Right now, the diplomatic thing for Princeton and Harvard to do is to politely ignore the charges that so indiscreet a person has impolitely made. Newspapers might show better judgement than they have and also let the matter quietly drop. As to why "Liberty" printed the article, there is but one conclusion...
...teau Thierry in July, 1918, one of my Captains insisted upon keeping a parrot in the vicinity of headquarters. On the day before the engagement it kept screaming, 'Demain, mort aux Boches! (To morrow, death to the Germans!) I asked my aide to muzzle his eloquent but indiscreet pet. But just as my order was given that bird exulted, 'Allaos! (There we go.) Perhaps he had a soul, but I am inclined to think he was just a mean, clever bird...
...worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official information. Parliament, however, acquitted me of all stigma and let the others off as having been merely 'indiscreet.' "In 1914 I was honored with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. The Fritz and Franklin medals in the U. S. were also mine; all the important crosses and decorations of Italy descended upon me; indeed in 1909 the King of Italy himself had nominated me as an Italian...
During the intervals of debate on the Public Safety Bill, many a Deputy amused himself by flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...
...famous literary hoaxes the case of "The Whispering Gallery". Add to the list of apologizing publishers the so-date John Lane and Company. It has been a busy week-end with the famous London house. Its latest offering, a chatty biting, indiscreet book called, with due propriety, "The Whispering Gallery" was hailed as the seasons hit in England. Everyone who mattered was reading it because it contained delightfully brutal comments on everyone else who mattered. The throbbing question then arose--who wrote it? John Lane and Company announced that only one person knew--the director of the firm, and that...