Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Krim performed the official gesture of laying down his arms. A minimum of ceremony was observed by the French, since Spain has long exerted pressure to have the upstart "Sultan" treated as a mere tribal chief upon his surrender. General Boichut resolved this situation with great tact, announced that he had sprained his ankle, sent a group of subordinate officers to receive the sword of Krim...
...songs of Brittany into modern French. The day came when his Chansons de la Bretagne was crowned by the Academie Francaise. M. le Braz emerged from his retirement to find that he had earned and won a name. Twenty times the Government of France paid tribute to his tact and learning by sending him to foreign countries on cultural missions. He lectured at Harvard in 1906, at Columbia in 1915 and several times visited both) the U. S. and Canada during the intervening years. It was while lecturing at Columbia in 1915 that he married his first American wife, Miss...
Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...
...Consul's office is a man of suavity and tact. He showed his plump questioner a portrait of President Lincoln, a tall, full length portrait. He hoped it would sink...
...outlook is unquestionably dark; no one knows whether the morrow will bring forth a dictator or a superb democratic leader who can solve French problems with constitutional tact. Certainly, the present crisis furnishes the international fascistic with a powerful argument for their propaganda against parliamentary rule. An aroused public opinion capable of disciplining the refractory deputies appears to be the only force which can preserve the present form of government...