Word: tactfulness
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...from the U. S., was thus thoroughly familiar with the origin of these obligations. He was an off-the-record observer at the Lausanne conference and is credited in some quarters not only with knowing the inside story of the Gentlemen's Agreement but with having, by his tact and patience, materially aided the conference's success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State Department, is: "I have no authority to discuss debts." But in present-day diplomacy, which Congress has told President Hoover he must continue to use on the Debts, lack of authority...
...creepers, Old World sun-birds, 6,000 American humming birds. Added to its present strength in birds of the Americas and the Pacific (many of them gathered by Whitney-sponsored expeditions), the gift definitely places the American's collection abreast of the British Museum's, With nice tact, the Donors Whitney have provided fellowships whereby, for a time, European scholars may come to study their lost treasure...
...Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...plants a dummy bomb under his bed to terrify the boarders, decamps for England. From anarchist lair to lair he jumps. In Paris he meets Luciana, who recognizes the star of fortune burning over his beetling brow. She becomes his mistress, mothers him and his destiny with incomparable tact...
...national stage M. Herriot's role has been less decisive, though without his tact and wisdom as French Premier...