Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more tact and more charm which was to stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she cannot recognize her best friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium...
...stable relationship in his life, aside from his family, was his friendship with Engels. Their only quarrel came when Engels' Irish mistress died. Hurt because Frau Marx had not written to express her sympathy, Engels was offended at Marx's formal note. Never distinguished for tact or graciousness, Marx nevertheless displayed both, wrote a conciliatory message which soothed Engels at once. "Women," wrote the philosopher earnestly, "are funny creatures, even the most intelligent...
...life. In some respects the priest's diplomatic problem was almost as great as the one Cortes settled with fire and sword. He was compelled to deal with a native king whose subjects wanted war and with Spanish soldiers who were no more pacific, succeeded by relying on tact, patience and the knowledge of native ways acquired in two centuries of conquest. More impressive for its sweeping interpretations than for brilliant descriptions or picturesque details, The Spanish Main nevertheless contains several compact narratives that readers are likely to find unfamiliar. One of these deals with the desperate race...
...front page, it seems that all these "musts" and "shoulds" can be changed to "shalls" and "wills". The omission of undergraduates in any part of the proceedings still rankles. But the rest of the affair,--publicity, speeches, memorials, meetings, dinners--, are apparently all being handled with the greatest tact, gusto, and efficacy...
...current version, infinitely more sophisticated, is chiefly noteworthy as an example of directorial tact. Aware that much of the motivation in Way Down East is of the sort which contemporary cinemaddicts have been taught to consider comic, Henry King must frequently have been tempted to burlesque the story rather than risk having audiences discover their own laughs in its sentimental climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm...