Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...
...repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters you receive are terrible and you are good sports to print them so that all may see. As a rule, I find very little fault with...
...many people who have long admired the sensational rise of Mr. Jones were more interested in knowing why, when a new Chairman was being chosen, the President of the Company had been so conspicuously passed over. The Directors' official announcement contained only a curt explanation that might mean anything: "Walter C. Teagle prefers to remain President, and is the Chief Executive officer of the company...
...capacity, enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...
...evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous officials and attendants took up their allotted...