Word: tactlessly
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Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
Doubtless fear of those tactless persons who haunt professors' teas and refer to instructors as "Ted" and "Jack" is sufficient ground for the seclusion in which many members of the faculty envelop themselves; the press of important work also furnishes a ready and valid excuse. But when graduates tell fondly of their familiarity with Dean Briggs, and students respect scholars like Professor Copeland the more for the interest which they take in their students, there can be no hesitation in saying that "contacts" are a major part of an education. Facts are soon forgotten, but men and their ideals...
...Baron Shidehara who warned the Army that Japan, by a tactless invasion of Manchuria, would tarnish her bright chance to force recognition by China of what Japan considers her "treaty rights'' in Manchuria by appealing to the World Court of which a Japanese, Mineichiro Adachi, is now President. It was Financier Inouye who warned that Japan's budget can scarcely be expected to stand both the cost of invading Manchuria and the resultant Chinese boycott which, more successful than all previous boycotts, had cut Japan's sales to her best customer 60%. Both warnings went unheeded...
...course the CRIMSON was tactless; it took a snarling tone as does any often-threatened dog; it impressed into service arguments which are, to say the lest, doubtful. Nevertheless, it was politically wise for the CRIMSON to speak in the year Harvard won just as loudly as it has spoken in years when the Army has colored the Stadium with a pale pink. It would have been hypocritical to do otherwise...
...Switzerland. Jennifer was a little hurt but forgot it when Father's wife left him and left Father on her hands again. By a cataclysmic effort of will, James shook Alice long enough to rush manfully home to Jennifer, declare himself unvicarishly. Father, a selfish, tactless man on the whole, died at just the right moment...