Word: tactlessness
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That the facts of that evening are indeed mere details we assert emphatically, wherewith the CRIMSON says "perhaps." But that they "disclose a principle which is not in accord with the principles of the House Plan" appears to us to be as far-fetched, as tactless, as clumsy a bit of reasoning as one could find. To think that a group of 250 men can be so acutely sensible, not to the canons, but to the superficial quibbles which intrude into the field of taste is beyond us. We were not present and it may be that there...
...bought "yoyo" tops for hundreds of Panhandle children. During last month's tree-sitting epidemic he gave money rewards to small boys who would come down from their perches, to safeguard their health. He revels in the nickname "Old Tack," derived from his daily irascible column "The Tactless Texan...
...Tactless newsgatherers stabbed with questions. Cadet Parham, more tactful than they, replied: "I got a square deal. I was given very good treatment. The officers were my friends and cadets, too, both from the North and South." Had he been happy? "Well, take any young fellow away from home out where men are men. He's going to be lonesome and homesick sometimes. Some of them resigned." Would he make a racial issue of his failure? "I should...
...Luxemburg," said he, slowly pulling off his grey silk traveling gloves. "When I learned that she had come to visit the Grand Duchess* it would have been too late to request an audience. I would not have done it in any case, however, because it would have been considered tactless and would have given a wrong impression at the very moment when Austrian Catholics were demanding an investigation of the legitimacy of the confiscation of Habsburg property...
...matter of horses. First the two-legged human horse; then the four-legged horse; then the iron horse; now the air horse. Conspicuous ' among air horses is the Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement...