Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...
Inspection! The Herr President did not stroll past the guardsmen, chatting with one of his ministers as a "civilian" would have done. Stopping before each soldier he inspected his equipment with a swift kindling glance. Upon one soldier whose right boot was but indifferently polished the President bestowed a curt rebuke, greeted with a smile and handshake three of his favorite guardsmen whom he found impeccable...
...grey, suede-gloved hands have still the air of sheathing tiger claws. . . . Last week M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, responding no doubt to an appeal from his old friend and political ally, Premier Poincaré, unsheathed his claws and raked the U. S. upon the raw in a curt, sarcastic, seering letter to President Coolidge...
...Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under the command of your Majesty...
Summoned by a curt order, the Premier's sleek but thunderous motor shot to the portals of his residence, the Villa Toronia;* drew up with a screech...