Word: tactfulness
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...have to be very careful about the observers I send out to the stations," commented Dr. Abbot. "They must have tact, trustworthiness, a ready knowledge of physics, and be able to get along with each other. For they must remain practically isolated from the world for three years at a time. That is a bit too long and something will have to be done about keeping them at their stations for shorter times...
...Roosevelt, with more candour than tact, in her recent press conference put her finger right on the ultimate function of such an organization. In expressing the hope that the movement would bring down to earth many false notions concerning patriotism and loyalties, the first lady has expressed the increasingly ardent wish of many Americans. If the self-righteous Legionnaires and the Daughters of the American Revolution, or, as S. N. Behrman has called them, "the women with the affiliated bodies," cannot be persuaded to desert the high seats they have arrogated to themselves, as a last resort they must...
...second letter and offer from Hanfstaengl put Harvard in an unfortunate light. Certainly it would have been only common courtesy to have answered Hanfstaengl when, after such rough treatment, he wrote the President in defence of himself and his government. Certainly now it would have been only common tact and consistency, after refusing to accept his original offer in such uncompromising terms, to have deleted his name from the list of graduates to whom the letter was to be sent. Though presumably caused by a mere clerical oversight, the incident was a perfect example of how not to treat...
...world press was handled with great tact by Lord Wigham, the King's Private Secretary of many years. Warm, homely details were not stifled. For example, the King, when broth and gruel palled, was permitted to have a few drops of warm brandy "as a treat...
...Only a saintly man can see it," explained the High Priest, adding with Ethiopian tact, "I have never seen it myself...