Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a cub reporter, his first assignment was to beard the testy superintendent of a city hospital to ask if it were true that a patient had recently been put to death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry-and with perhaps as little tact-I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant...
...real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended...
...their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles out the window, that have been averted by timely and sympathetic proctorial intervention looms large in Freshman annals. Qualities of judgment, tact, and initiative are all prime requisites for the position, and the new list of new men gives promise that the latter will perform their functions creditably...
...Bride for the Unicorn" on its opening night and who can appreciate to a certain degree the modern trends in the drama, let me say that I personally believe that the CRIMSON Playgoer showed an immense amount of tact and as great a degree of poor judgment in letting the Harvard Dramatic Club off so lightly. To be sure, it was an experiment and it was courageous. But farther than that it is difficult to praise...
...hall hostess are not stained irrevocably, since they have both been wronged. It is a question of time before the slick and ally gambler. Ricardo Coriez, fades from the scene. Thus he is the cause of a pleasant surprise when he faces his end with a great deal of tact...