Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More needed at the moment was tact. Fortnight ago a Captain Justice, no member of the British expeditionary force but a onetime British officer and automobile racer who had enlisted in the Saar international police, drove his friend the Earl of Aylesford and a German girl named Käthe Braun home after a high time in a café. Swinging his car around a corner he climbed the sidewalk, ran over the foot of a Frau Steig. Immediately the street was full of caterwauling Germans. Captain Justice whipped out his service revolver, fired two shots. One slightly injured...
...Riddell tact, kindliness and news-sense were first demonstrated in the U. S. at the Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921. At his own expense, Lord Riddell accompanied the British mission headed by Foreign Secretary Balfour. Elaborately disclaiming any "official" standing Lord Riddell acquired a room in the U. S. Navy Department's stucco building on the Mall, proceeded to "dope" the conference for U. S. newshawks twice a day. Even during the long periods ot closed sessions, Lord Riddell's "unofficial" well of information, always extremely accurate, never went dry. His presence was a Godsend to correspondents...
...husband, has lived there ever since (she is now 31). Two years ago she married Author Laurence Vail, by whom she has" two daughters, one named Apple (see cut). Says Expatriate Boyle: "In literature, I have never wholly liked the work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good reading. They do not write simply or violently enough for my taste. I should like my prose to be lucid, direct and lean." Other books: Plagued by the Nightingale; Year Before Last...
...temperaments of his composer and his ebullient librettist, William Schwenck Gilbert, were the greatest burdens of Manager Carte's harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...
...Roosevelt has all her son's tact and skill in dealing with the Press. When ship-newshawks rapped on her stateroom door, she called out: "I'll have to ask you to wait for half an hour. My hair is not fixed and I must dress." Thirty minutes later reporters trooping into her cabin were greeted with: "Who are all these charming people...