Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their warmth. For a long time he toyed with the idea of marriage. But it was actually repulsive to him. He could never bring himself to the point. He had several intimate friendships with women, and conducted them all peaceably together, on however platonic a plane. This took considerable tact, was often an emotional strain. "Philine" he finally calmed back into friendship...
...average male's time. In view of this fact, it is, as the lady points out, criminal negligence to keep the mass of the public uninformed on the subject, bungling about year after year, experimenting along lines that are bound to end in frustration and nervous disappointment. With a tact that the present generation does not deserve; Miss Hahn starts out on the long task of explanation and illustration. The terrifying suspicion grows upon one as she pro-Broadway entrepreneur masquerading under a feminine nom de plume, or, b) a former Hollywood houri with a degree of experience...
...Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan last week assembled 50 alert Army officers. From the whole service they had been selected for their tact, good morals and efficiency to guide the 4,000 Gold Star mothers and War widows the U. S. this summer is sending abroad to the graves of their sons, their husbands. Before these men at the hotel stood Major General John Lesesne De Witt, Quarter-master-General of the Army, spruce, military, full of last-minute advice. Gravely he informed them...
When, last fall, the Botanical Gardens withered in a state of financial delinquency, a problem arose which apparently called for all the rare tact and ingenuity which the combined forces of sundry garden clubs and a Harvard administration could muster to the foreground. The situation was attacked will such a display of apprehension and diffuse polemics that it assumed all the seriousness of a three act mystery play to undergraduates uninitiated in the science and verbiage of horticulture...