Word: tactfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot be employed without an implication of libidinousness. Unidentified! The Tribune obviously wished to suggest that the gentleman had crawled up behind the golfers with the idea of rising to his feet just as the camera snapped. If a gentleman known in innumerable homes for his geniality, probity and tact, is not protected on the veranda of his own club from the slurs of the Tribune, who can deem himself safe...
...Straton describes the evils Df dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
...abhorred negligible vices. He did not smoke, enforced a non-smoking rule among his employes. They could chew if they wanted to. He cultivated, however, a taste for wine and a proficiency of tact worthy of one of the scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled...
French power there. He is more. He actually governs Morocco for the Sultan, and as the Sultan is in theory an absolute monarch, Marshal Lyautey is par excellence a beneficent despot. His word is law. Yet, he always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost...
...Significance. Only a man who was at once a Muhammadan, a scientist and a leader of great tact, courage and obstinacy could have consummated this expedition. Ahmed Hassanein was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers...