Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Mr. Brisbane, who is himself an admirer of curt speech, "naturally not, since President Coolidge said all there was to in his extremely well chosen 'I do not choose...
...witnesses, ordering and comparing of records went into making the volume. It is designed to guide the most meticulous motor tourist from spot to spot along all the fronts where U. S. troops went into action. The- exploits and reverses of each different division are mapped in separate colors. Curt accompanying narratives enable the tourist to follow, or fight over again in memory, the entire Argonne campaign, for example- Montfaucon, Vauquois, Grand Pre, Sommerance, Romagne, Cunel, Nantilleis, Brieulles sur Bar, etc., etc., with 500 pictures selected from the 100,000 on file in Washington and many more in England, France...
...correspondent from whom Mr. Lewis did not stalk away was Dorothy Thompson, curt, mannish, foreign servant of the New York Evening Post. They talked about the Vienna disturbance. "I wish I could see it," said Novelist Lewis, absently...
Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
...Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair regards the results of the present legislative session as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate. . . . This is the only great parliamentary body in the world where such a situation exists. . , . "The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate...