Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee has been selected, headed by Oscar W. Hausserman, with Thomas J. Campbell handling the publicity. Others on the committee are John Elliott, Robert L. Fisher, Hugh L. Gaddis, Arthur J. Goldsmith, Francis C. Gray, Curt E. Hanse, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ralph Lowell, Clarence B. Randall, Howard C. Reid, Thorvald S. Ross, Lawrence D. Smith, Richard B. Wigglesworth, Raymond S. Wilkins, and Dr. Paul R. Withington...
...street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion's public career. The $1,900,000,000 bonus, its goal...
...author and the artist have collaborated perfectly. The lithographs by Lynd Ward are impressive, the narrative by Granville Hicks is curt and clear. Every Harvard man, every follower of the fight for social justice, every lover of adventure, should own a copy...
...Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince of the German principality of Lippe conferred on "Benno's" mother and her descendants the princely title of Lippe-Biesterfeld...
Time & again a curt long distance call from the French Cabinet to the Rumanian Cabinet has blocked the dismissal of M. Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster...