Word: tact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief...
...studied law at Harvard for seven months. He even took courses at the War College. In 1928 he commanded a Japanese training squadron which visited Annapolis, was received by President Hoover. As naval attaché in Washington (1920-23), he assisted at the Washington Conference and was all tact. He always remembered Americans' birthdays, and always remembered to tell the story of the little cemetery in Japan where some shipwrecked U.S. sailors were buried, whose graves were perpetually and tenderly cared for. In 1937, with tears literally blurring his eyes, he apologized for the sinking of the Panay...
Today, as both Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House, Eden uses tact and charm in keeping debates within reason, chats earnestly with opposition leaders in the midst of the most heated discussions. He has the trick of lightly fingering the arm of a backbencher in a gesture of intimacy that avoids the bad taste of the backslapper. During the week he lives in the Foreign Office. Weekends he spends in a comfortable 18th-Century house near London, with handy direct telephones to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Office. Last week he spent an evening...
This official biography, by the Dublin scholar Joseph Hone, is not by a good deal as great as its subject. Its polished-walnut elegance gives way now to dullness, now to Irish fanciness; its irony and its tact might occasionally have given way to blunter judgment. It goes into local minutiae tiresome to any save the hottest Hibernians. Its biographer cannot with detachment examine Yeats. Yet the book is so rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will...
...Interior, Dr. Wilbur. Said a Tresidder friend last week: "He knows the department heads and he knows their politics. He'll be able to tie Stanford into national affairs. Tresidder even gets along fine with Ickes, and if that doesn't mean he's got tact, nothing does...