Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal by counsel for the defendant to South African Prime Minister, General the Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog brought a curt reply, "The sentence of flogging must be carried...
...politically expedient to do so, but he kept repeating that Coolidge economy was the priceless ingredient. He carried this thought to the picayune extreme of giving away only the pen nib, and not the pen holder, after signing important bills. The other, philosophical extreme was reached in his curt closing message to Congress and the country last December...
...FRONT PAGE-A savagely melodramatic comedy of Chicago police-court reporters who stoop to scoop and who are masters of the retort curt (TIME, June...
...have played it well. Sometimes, like Hornsby, he plays and manages at the same time; usually he directs his team from the field bench. Judge Fuchs is not a professional, not even an able, baseball player. Even if he were, he is too good-natured and kindly to subdue curt umpires and angry, ignorant players. For him to be a manager was absurd and astonishing; he admitted that he would hire Johnny Evers, once a famed player, to be his assistant manager...
...velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably...