Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specifically aimed at halting the spread of printed propaganda and the swift distribution of liquid encouragement to voters, the curt regulation draws too fine a line between distasteful electioneering and the honest efforts of candidates to get their ideas before the student body. In their attempt to keep election campaigns within reasonable bounds, the Committee faces the possibility of smothering all attempts at popularizing elections. Freshmen forced to rely on the dope sheets posted in the Union will find their knowledge of the candidates inadequate for intelligent voting. If the Council expects to capitalize on the current interest in extra...
...pressroom the tourists saw big banners, bearing such slogans as "The Socialist obligation of the five-year plan is to do the best you can." One was more curt: "Get the paper out on time...
...Japanese take the word "dear" literally, even at the start of a letter. Last week General MacArthur took care to begin his letter to Japan's Premier with a curt "Mr. Prime Minister...
...conga line around the Palace the sentries saluted as the dancers passed. The nightclubs she haunts are the most fashionable, her guests impeccably aristocratic, and a Scotland Yard operative is always on hand to choose a table and clear a path to the ladies' room. Elizabeth is sometimes curt and often imperious. At a Palace party, when she found a friend powdering her nose in a corridor, Elizabeth snapped: "This is not the cloakroom." Nevertheless she is highly popular among her wellborn friends. "A smasher of a girl," most of them...
...Patterson, who growled: "Who does Caniff think he is, Robert Emmet Sherwood?" ("He had to go and name a playwright I admire," says Caniff.) Once Caniff, excited by the morale value of his strip, suggested that the Daily News be sent free to remote post exchanges. He got a curt no from Captain Patterson...