Word: tactfulness
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...want of tact is worse than a want of virtue...
...King's Place. Few monarchist nations demand less of their sovereigns than Belgium. Of their King, Belgians expect tact, tolerance and conformity to good bourgeois ideals. Belgians-nearly half of whom are French-speaking and mostly anticlerical Walloons, the others predominantly
...Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their common fight against Japan, gave the Communists a valuable breathing space in which to consolidate their forces...
Letters in Blood. Later, Mossadeq got a law doctorate in Switzerland, and in 1916 the young lawyer was appointed Under Secretary of Finance. With characteristic energy and total lack of tact, he tried summarily to dismiss hundreds of do-nothing officeholders. Some of them wrote him threatening letters in blood. He was fired, but in 1919 Mossadeq jumped up again. He founded his political reputation by attacking the British (who had just forced the Persian government to sign a treaty making the country virtually a protectorate). He was exiled again; in 1920 he was back as governor of a province...
Last week, when we first read in your periodical the classified advertisement of Stercoricolous Feceophagator, we did that which any individual of ordinary tact does when confronted with a shocking violation of the most elementary precepts of good taste: we ignored it. However, the reiteration of this ruttish broadside in today's CRIMSON suggests that the avowed feceophage has seized upon the advantage of wholesale rates to repeat his disgusting puff. Your threefold publication of this pornographic notice allows us no longer to remain silent...