Word: curtness
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...Pulham's irony is blunted, if not denied, by the picture's pseudo-happy ending. Beauteous Miss Lamarr, rich, middleaged, married, still very desirable, comes to town on business and has a rendezvous with Pulham. Ancient yearnings stir under his stuffed shirt-in spite of the curt, hard-boiled way she interrupts their tryst to tell off a recalcitrant customer by telephone. An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires...
Request. At Fort Bliss, Tex., Army officers received a curt wire reading: "REQUEST EXTENSION OF MY A.W.O.L...
TOTAL ESPIONAGE-Curt Riess-Putnam...
Witty, vain, gregarious Curt Riess is a former German journalist who went to Paris when Hitler came in, became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
...last year's World Series. This year the Dodgers have the best pitching pair in the major leagues: calm 33-year-old Whitlow ("Whit") Wyatt and fiery 26-year-old Kirby Higbe, both sizzling right-handers who have won 22 games apiece. Besides, the Dodgers have crafty Curt Davis (curves) and Old Reliable Freddy Fitzsimmons (knuckle-ball...