Word: tactfulness
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...bedtime when the new governess arrived. The little girl sat up in her bed, looked the lady over, and spoke her mind: "Why have you no hair?" Miss Crawford had hair and proved it by taking off her hat. She also had tact, wit and a will beneath the hat, and proved it thereafter in one of the toughest assignments in the British Empire. For the next 16 years (until 1949), "Crawfie's" job was to teach the outspoken little girl and her tart-tongued sister their respective places - as royal princesses of the world's greatest monarchy...
Four floors below, Congressman Lodge -a conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
Even for such a veteran good-will ambassador as 69-year-old Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, his "last big trip" around the world was hitting new highs of diplomacy and tact. After causing a sensation in Spain by unwittingly displaying the Spanish Republican flag on his converted B-17 (TIME, March 6), the Chicago Tribune's publisher had invaded
...Innocents (adapted by William Archibald from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.; produced by Peter Cookson) dramatizes with considerable tact and fidelity what is probably the most famous of modern ghost stories. As does The Turn of the Screw, it often whispers rather than speaks, suggests far more than it explains, and calls up something not only eerie but evil...
...drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal with a few words, and make him think that you're his servant. Pretty soon he'll be outside...