Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republicans. "The Republican Convention gave Labor's representatives a brief and curt hearing. The Republican platform ignores entirely the injunction issue. It fails to deal with Labor's right to organize or the right of the workers, even in self-defense, collectively to cease work. That platform sustains the Railroad Labor Board, with all that it means in the direction of governmental coercion of wage-earners. It fails to recommend the ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
Lord Winterton made a few curt remarks about defiance of the Speaker's ruling...
...arriving in time for Wagner's soul-stirring prelude, and then marching out. They reappear for the great love-duet, and go out again. Finally they slink into their seats-just in time for the Liebestod. But let it here be said that this last performance, featuring Herr Curt Taucher as Tristan, Florence Easton as Isolde, and Arthur Bodanzky as conductor, was so good that it compelled many of the most inveterate "duckers" to listen to every note, from the first in the prelude toi the last in the Liebestod...
Siegfried was revived at the Metropolitan (Manhattan) and marked a further advance in the restoration of Wagner to American repertories. It was magnificently given and received. Curt Taucher sang Siegfried and Florence Easton, Brünnhilde...
...idea of what courses, aside from prescribed courses, they wish to take in their first year. For even if the range of choice in the first year is "cabin'd, cribb'd, bound in", yet there is some choice. And aside from this point, the descriptions are so curt and dry that they are really repellent, as Mr. Woodbridge notes. Therefore freshmen naturally hate English A and German A with the feeling that they are mere sheep being lead to the slaughter...