Word: tactfulness
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...cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius for cooking." The entire atmosphere of the place would be "gay, spirited, diverting"; above all, "decent." Their club would be "The Embassy Club of New York," to open in October...
...There have been previous devices of this type. Most of them broke an electric circuit slowly; an arc formed, injured the con- tact points, in time incapacitated the device...
Such is the tact of George Sisler, such his control, that never in his career has he resorted to rowdyism to intimidate a refractory umpire. He was suspended only once and then, in 1924, because some supporter of his, enraged when an umpire called a close decision against him, discharged a shower of bottles upon the unfortunate official. He wrote a letter to the President of the American League, was restored to standing...
...some Secretaries who gave only part time work, and no Secretary who remained more than two years. He gave himself with enthusiasm to the task of organizing the constituent societies into one whole, the Phillips Brooks House Association, as it now exists. He did it with tact and patience, with real appreciation of conflicting points of view. No one who does not remember the old situation can realize how great a gain that has been. He threw himself with characteristic energy into the increasing of the endowment for the House and into the organization of the present method of current...
...Yesterday they held another meeting without fireworks or gun play. A soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...