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Instantly cleared of suspicion was the King's private secretary, Baron Stamford-ham, courtly letter-writer and precise putterer, characterized by Queen Victoria as "a model of tact and diplomacy...
...hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British politics - to say his bitter say against Americans and Bolsheviks, and to sing his little song for whatever policy is momentarily...
...nearly 20 years Dr. Norman Hutton was St. Chrysostom's rector. He was famed for his scholarly, dignified manner. His tact quelled brewing intramural quarrels. His persuasiveness brought much money to the church which he remodeled and enlarged. Last September, however, he resigned and Dr. Abbott succeeded...
With admirable tact H. R. H. cited a light snowfall as his excuse for not riding ceremoniously from Buckingham Palace to St. James's Palace in the ornate state coach. The Prince lives in York House, which is really one wing of the intricate collection of buildings that make up St. James's Palace. He had been expected to motor to Buckingham Palace and ride back in the state coach. Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House...
...time for tact on the bishop's part. All factions must be placated while the campaign for funds to complete the great cathedral was going on so Bishop Manning tactfully retained Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, who had been nominated by his predecessor. Broad dean and High bishop, they labored side by side in the vineyard, and the money came rolling in. During these years, now and then there were tiffs, but nothing critical. The skeleton of high-church Anglophilism never once so much as twittered. And finally the Gothic dream was fairly funded...