Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly the French Premier was curt as he caught the night train for Paris. With French elections looming May i, he left his big Flandin to attend to what was going to happen in London, spent a bad night on the Channel and was up at 6 a. m. to dictate the whole way to Paris...
...salutation of letters printed in TIME is standardized as "Sirs," not for lack of space, but because "Sirs" is curt, clear, complete...
...Curt Glaser, director of the Staatliche Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, will give two lectures in German on Thursday and Friday afternoons, March 21 and April 1, at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture room of Fogg Museum, "Grunewald and the Romanticism of the Old German Masters" will be the first topic, "Durer and Holbein" the second. The public is invited...
...common: a magnificent stage presence which they inherit from their father, the late Maurice Barrymore, who was born Herbert Blythe and took his stage name from an Irish peer who was one of his ancestors. Where John Barrymore is elegant, faintly satiric and irrepressibly nonchalant, his brother is curt, surly, emphatic. At 53 (three years older than John), Lionel usually plays the roles of elderly but vigorous personages. He exercises his prerogative of giving most of them the same mannerisms and is at his best when chuckling, gnashing, and gesticulating to express intoxication...
Prohibition was disposed of in a curt sentence: "No witness has suggested prohibition ... as a practical proposition for this country, and we do not therefore propose to enter into any discussion of the merits or demerits of such a proposal...