Word: tactlessly
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...They prefer easy jobs to hard jobs, get to work late, neglect details, are careless with their belongings. They incline to daydream, have "useless thoughts," feel inferior, have dizzy spells, regard themselves as nervous. They dislike to lend money or give help in an accident. They tend to be tactless, unsympathetic, petulant, critical. They resemble happy wives in liking social welfare work, picnics, excursions and parties and in expecting solicitude when they are ill; but they prefer not to ask advice and to face their troubles alone. They get more opinions from books than from talk. Although generally intolerant, they...
...ardent researcher badgered his publishers until Kreisler cabled his confession from Vienna. He wrote most of his so-called classical music 30 years ago when he felt the need of enlarging his repertoire and deduced that it would be "inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on programs...
Perhaps the best way of obtaining an efficient, non-grafting control is the union of military, naval, and commercial aviation under one head, a proposal which was made several years ago by General Billy Mitchell, probably the most tactless and the most capable firebrand that has recently worn the Army khaki, and a proposal which is now nearer to realization than ever before. Efficiently run, this would give us an organized, unified, and powerful airforce, and a comparatively safe and graft-free commercial service. Until the day comes, stick to the rails...
Despite the consternation caused by the tactless Mr. Amau of Japan, his recent declaration of policy in the Far East can be said to have one beneficial effect. It inevitably clarifies the attitude of Japan, thus providing the countries concerned in entering next year's naval conference with some idea of what claims Japan will make...
More like their father than the others is Son Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time...