Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Her Majesty had time to utter a second queenly remark, her chauffeur came bounding two steps at a time, and uttered curt words which carried conviction to the Cockney wench...
When he looked up from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
Charles Evans Hughes, non-candidate but often-mentioned, had not up to last week sailed for Europe when he had said he was going. A curt secretary announced that Mr. Hughes would sail "about June 19." She exhibited annoyance...
...single column sketches and headings are in the best New Yorker style, but the two best layouts in the issue are by Batchelder and Hichborn. Mr. Batchelder's Peter Arno picture (Arno wasn't so fancy in New Haven two or three years ago when his name was Curt Peters) is fully as good as that satirical fellow could do himself, and the halitosis ad is what is popularly known as lifelike. How many in the class can give this little girl an identifying hand...
Eddie Collins hides a heart of gold under a curt manner. He won't allow his young wife to continue as typist, because silently he remembers his work-ridden mother. Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains...