Word: tactfulness
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...Your demand is without tact and inappropriate. When you write that you are all of the opinion that the position you took in the War was correct, you again betray a colossal ignorance of the fact that in all countries, without excepting the United States, statements are increasing in number from day to day which go to show that the United States fought for a bad cause...
During the week M. le President Gaston Doumergue, beady-eyed, humorous, possessed of the most supple and successful fund of political tact in France?...
...mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
...Tact, diplomacy and sense of humor are the requisites of a good stage manager," said Marion Puller, manager of Mrs. Fiske and the only known woman-stage manager. Her opinions were given to a CRIMSON reporter last night just following the buying moments that every evening brings her as she releases the lever that opens the curtains at the beginning of the performance...
...Miss Puller, "they are as capable in every way, and in many cases, have more attributes. I hope that in the near future more women will take up this profession. Women make better stage managers than do men because they can handle stage hands with more precision, with more tact and with better results...