Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...explanatory telegram received by the CRIMSON last night disclosed that the retiring editor wrote his column "on application of the Kinsey Report to College." Two curt phrases told the rest of the story...
...State Department, this was like twisting a dagger in an old wound. But George Marshall muffled his feelings and dispatched a curt reply to Styles Bridges: "[A China] proposal has been worked out by the Department and it will be submitted to the National Advisory Council and the Bureau of the Budget within the week. Upon the completion of their examinations, the President will be in a position to submit the program to the Congress...
...Cold, Curt, Cruel...
...People don't completely collapse. They go on living anyway." [TIME, Dec. 29]. These words, spoken by Bob Taft about the hungry and politically confused peoples of Europe, seem to ... me the most cold, curt and cruel indictment, or better still abandonment, of humanity since Marie Antoinette told the hungry mob, "Let them eat cake...