Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the chronicle reaches the establishment of TVA and its legal ups-&-downs, the Opposition is given a curt inning. An actor, who evidently did not see dynamic young President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. in the MARCH OF TIME'S TVA sequence last year, dodders out as Mr. Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum...
...quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding and the curt Mr. Coolidge, had achieved a genuine-diplomatic triumph-the 5-5-3 naval limitation treaty which for over a decade put a stop to the competitive building of warships. He had also won himself the Washington title of "Chilly Charlie." And he had quit statecraft to hire out his admirable talents...
...head and sat up in bed to take his medicine. His secretary put a spoonful in his mouth. Mr. Lewis swallowed and made a face. He had influenza. Shortly a man left the sickroom. Newshawks in the corridor crowded around him asking, "How are things going?" The answer was curt: "Things are getting hot." To newshawks patroling the corridor all evening it seemed that the heating took a long time...
...remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen was to make her escape suddenly collapsed and sent 15 members of the chorus sprawling. When Georg Anthes was singing Lohengrin in 1903, his swan-boat upset and flung him flat upon a painted ocean. In 1924 Curt Taucher, as Siegfried, was climbing the fire-girt rock when he unluckily stepped through a trapdoor...
During the past week the General Motors corporation has been so busy proving itself legally right that it disregarded the fact that most of the country was proving it morally wrong. The curt refusal of Mr. Sloan to sit in on a conference with Miss Perkins and the labor leaders has done more damage to his cause than a hundred rabid speeches by Mr. Lewis ever could...