Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult form of writing is the brief sketch, usually essayed only by adepts. Neat selection of detail, curt force of language, descriptive finesse are necessary. Taximan Hazard possesses these literary attributes, provided he wrote his own book. Even if he did not, he is a skilful collaborator. Once a hobo, he says: "I came to New York just to see the sights ... my money ran low. . . . Hack driving seemed to be a very handy way to see New York and eat at the same time." Still at the taxi wheel, he is now about...
...presenting Romeo and Juliet. Generally content with a small part and the direction of her company, Eva LeGallienne this time took upon herself one of the title roles. The performance had a somewhat Bohemian disregard for the usual trappings of Shakespearean drama. The text, trimmed, sounded unusually businesslike curt, direct...
...Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling for the life of the Red State...
...Flatheaded, big-nosed, bashful Markus Schussheim, who runs a messenger service, wears sneakers, plays with an oldfashioned, oval bat, concentrates on getting the ball back; the ping pong championship of New York, beating blond, elegant Curt Gerstman, bank employe, once a member of the German international table tennis team; in straight sets...
Threatened with action by the Board, the University authorities, evidently in a fit of obstinate pique, fired all the women, with a curt note that they would later be re-employed as conditions permitted. There seems to be no possible excuse for the authorities' not paying off the women with at least a week's advance. Granted that the persons handling Harvard's financial affairs have to do it carefully and wisely, it is absurd for the richest university in the country to act like a penny-pinching miser. The University does, to some extent, act charitably in employing women...