Word: curtness
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TIME is still "curt, clear," but in reference to Death Valley Scotty (March 24) by no means "complete." Banker Gerard has no reason to hope for "a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
...less than most men between 42 and 52, and who has suffered no greater hurts than a finger broken in an automobile accident and a polyp removed from his larynx. The wig-like wad of hair which hangs across his forehead has no grey in it; nor has his curt mustache...
...Milwaukee sister, Mrs. Martin Fladoes, Ruth Mitchell sent a curt cable. It said: "Am leaving for the front...
...Curt, Clear, Complete!" Nuts! Whodunit? A while ago you described an episode of mysterious book turning in the libraries at Harvard, and . . . you've never published the solution of the mystery. The suspense is giving us and TIME-reading friends . . . nightmares. . . . Let "complete" TIME complete this mystery and tell us, whodunit...
...people learned two sickening truths. The Government came right out and said that the Nazis intended to march their Army across the land to attack Greece-i.e., there was nothing to be done about it. And the British Minister to Bulgaria, George William Rendel, answered this with a curt announcement: "If the Germans occupy Bulgaria and make it a base against our ally, obviously we shall have to break off relations with Bulgaria and take whatever measures the situation requires"-i.e., Britain would make war on Bulgaria, and nothing could be done about that either...