Word: tact
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Fisher has worked as hard as Temple for cooperation among the Christian churches. A better administrator, he may prove more effective than his predecessor in this respect. Another asset is his adroit ness and tact, which he used effectively in piloting through the Church Assembly a complicated measure to reorganize par ish boundaries. And he is no stuffed shirt. He once organized a football team, called "Lambeth United," played on it with his six sons. Another time he appeared in Chester town square, bishop's gaiters & all, grinding a hand organ to help raise money for the Royal Infirmary...
Schoolmistress's Conquests. Headmistress Sparling met Barsetshire's chilliness with warmth and infinite tact. She sympathized with the demoted Beltons. She was gentle with absent-minded Vicar Oriol. She listened tolerantly to eccentric old Mrs. Updike's half-witted worries-such as how one would kill a chicken on a desert island ("The only thing I can think of would be to work myself . . . into a ... rage and stamp on its head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana...
...Lord Halifax' impregnable tact could not disguise the fact that the Stettinius statement had let everyone down and satisfied no one, in or out of the U.S. -except the isolationists...
...Publisher Roy A. Williams of the Aspen, Colo. Times (circ. 556): "I agree with the article. . . . The country newspaper is a business, a merchandising business, and anybody who thinks it is anything else is getting ready to lose some money. Tact is the word...
...business. He is independent in action. He is independent in ideas. He is independent in decisions. He is a courageous debater. He is a forceful speaker. He is a good scholar. He is a level-headed citizen. He is sociable and approachable. He is brimful of experience. He has tact and common sense. He is full of enterprise. He is acquainted with the needs of his people. He is the people...