Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...
...Tactless Mr. Edison's point was that U. S. warships needed more anti-aircraft protection. To have agreed with him last May, after the first flush of German air triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...
...long time the air was thick with wounded feelings, with horror at such disregard of punctilious protocol. But that week Adolf Hitler, who had been sounding a harsh A for many days, was silent. It was believed that he understood such language. Up to last week the simple, tactless little statement had not yet been improved...
...half, Hopkins' health has kept him away from his desk most of the time. Recently his health has improved slightly, but last week this was the excuse he used in submitting his resignation to Franklin Roosevelt. According to Wasington observers, the untied shoestring he tripped on was his tactless handling of Democratic bigwigs at the Convention in Chicago. Harry Hopkins, it was said, would be more useful promoting Term III from a less conspicuous place; the resignation of Under Secretary Ed Noble (to follow Willkie's banner) precipitated the need for an overhauling in the Commerce Department. Nobody...
...weeks age in a message to you, my American friends, I weighed my words to avoid tactless remarks which might be interpreted by susceptible listeners as propaganda. Who cares about propaganda tonight? Now, I wish my words might reach very American ear. Crimes, murders, horrors, are being committed. You know it... Louvain, which American money rebullt after the last war, is once more in ruins. Peasants, whose village you generally once rehabilitate, are again fleeing before the same invader. People of Belglum and France are being killed...