Word: tactfulness
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Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
Both these agents were reported safely out of the country last week. Unnamed, due to the Department of State's tact and powers of persuasion, was Farnsworth's third client, Commander Bunjiro Yamaguchi, also of the Japanese Embassy staff in Washington. Said Tokyo: "Although our hands are clean, stories published in America are admittedly embarrassing...
...Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both for his deeds and his songs. When he set his heart on Vigdis he refused all counsel of patience, tact, forbearance...
...months ago that he hoped and expected to return. But his friends know that he has had his eye on Michigan's Governorship for a long time, that at 43 his political ambitions are virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis Stimson, who became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State; or for the first, William Howard Taft...
...Harvardman "Billy" Phillips, scion of a wealthy New England family, entered the U. S. diplomatic service as private secretary to the venerable Joseph H. Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. By reason of tact and independent means. Careerist Phillips became successively First Secretary of the Embassy in London, Minister to The Netherlands (1920). Ambassador to Belgium (1924), first U. S. Minister to Canada...