Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is not "Curt, Clear, Complete" when it uses the word "pretty" in describing Senator D. Worth Clark, the junior Senator from Idaho. There is nothing in the reference to Senator Clark in your March 13 issue that called for any such adjective...
This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
...Morgan partners sit, walked through the lobby to a small reception room and greeted reporters with a "Good day, Gentlemen." At that point Mr. Morgan's usual embarrassment overtook him, he muttered something about his firm's being "short-handed," then passed around flimsy sheets bearing the curt announcement...
...Here, "curt, clear, complete," is my record: University graduate with B.A. degree and Phi Beta Kappa key; editorial staff member of metropolitan newspaper; editor and manager of monthly magazine; advertising copywriter; researcher; writer of publicity, book, theatre and cinema reviews, editorials; author of feature and travel articles, biographical sketches, monographs, essays, fiction (appearing in more than a score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with...
Earlier this month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...