Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community arises from less serious reasons than class feeling and ideological cleavage. The relation between the Council's attempts to divert attention from the abnormal tax rate and the value of the University property should be studied, and the passing (it is hoped) of the current red baiting. Tact must be shown by Harvard to soothe the city, but the problem is one of public relations more than of class antagonism...
...teachers is becoming increasingly embarrassing for this University, which must thus smile condoningly on all doctrines--no matter what "ism" is represented. After the lesson in public relations it has been taught in the last few weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary, but a more careful tone of voice, for complete political freedom is an idyllic and troublesome standard for Harvard in a city which takes such a literal interpretation of a liberal educational...
Rachel Field's fictionized biography centres on Henriette's six years in the Praslin household, emphasizes her genius with children, her unimpeachable tact in dealing with her violently jealous mistress, her innocence of the scandals that linked her name with the handsome Duc, the injustice of contemporaries (among them Victor Hugo) who characterized her as "a rare woman...at once wicked and charming...
...their actions. They are in the same position as the President of the United States, who is always regarded as President whether he is speaking in behalf of the Democratic Party or the Warm Springs Foundation. Remembering their connection with Harvard, these instructors should use good sense and tact. For one who has lived in the Cambridge community less than a month, Mr. Hicks has jumped too quickly into the troubled sea of outside affairs. The result has been to make his won life twenty-four hours of torture and to madden some 300,000 readers of the Boston American...
...Herself a member of a family of famed hotelkeepers, Madame Ritz is by second nature discreet. In her account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward VII (the seat was too low), of a lovers' quarrel patched up by a specially aromatic...