Word: curtness
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...conga line around the Palace the sentries saluted as the dancers passed. The nightclubs she haunts are the most fashionable, her guests impeccably aristocratic, and a Scotland Yard operative is always on hand to choose a table and clear a path to the ladies' room. Elizabeth is sometimes curt and often imperious. At a Palace party, when she found a friend powdering her nose in a corridor, Elizabeth snapped: "This is not the cloakroom." Nevertheless she is highly popular among her wellborn friends. "A smasher of a girl," most of them...
...Patterson, who growled: "Who does Caniff think he is, Robert Emmet Sherwood?" ("He had to go and name a playwright I admire," says Caniff.) Once Caniff, excited by the morale value of his strip, suggested that the Daily News be sent free to remote post exchanges. He got a curt no from Captain Patterson...
...CURT B. LOEWENBAUM New Orleans...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...long before 8 a.m., streets on the Left Bank were crowded with 33,000 students ready for their bachots. They milled around the historic lycees, waiting for the doors to open on their first exam (French Composition and Literature). But the doors stayed stubbornly shut. Officials posted a curt notice: Exam postponed...