Word: tactfulness
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...misgivings: "What can the man do that cometh after the king?" Like Neilson, Davis had been an English professor (his specialty: Jonathan Swift); Smith trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from a Smith sickbed (appendicitis) that he would quit the presidency and go back to Lilliput...
...right nor left, he vanished beyond the folding doors. A few moments later, Anna Brinton came to the door, leaned in and said: "The FBI man has gone." Howard Brinton went on talking, but suddenly realized what had been said. "What FBI man?"* he asked. But, with Quakerly tact, Anna Brinton had withdrawn...
Phillips is perhaps the last advocate of that vanished conservative party, the Federalists. He believes that present-day attempts "to make Jefferson's reputation great by inflation may burst the bubble," and speaks of the explosive honesty of John Adams, the "underhanded tact and hypocrisy" of Jefferson, the "subtle and persistent venom" of John Quincy Adams. Such blunt historical editorializing has scarcely been seen in the U.S. since the days he writes about. But his partisanship for the Federalists is no greater than that of Morison and Brooks and Arthur Schlesinger for Thomas Jefferson and the Democrats...
This little adventure story is told very simply, with a fine understanding of suspense, and with admirable candor and tact. There is a lot of good fright in it and a flickering of the frank cruelty which comes naturally to children; but there is no terror and no brutality. Chips Rafferty and his associates, one dark and dour, one crudely comic, are exactly right as a child's idea of bad men. The players are all so likable and unaffected, and the universal moods of childhood adventure are so persuasive, that young moviegoers will probably forgive even the Australian...
...through India Office red tape and personally conducted most of the crucial discussions which finally led to a settlement with Indian leaders. With little enough to boast about at home, Attlee might get a salute from history for his handling of the Indian problem. Viscount Mountbatten's tact and informality had brought agreement where none seemed possible...