Word: curtness
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...remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen was to make her escape suddenly collapsed and sent 15 members of the chorus sprawling. When Georg Anthes was singing Lohengrin in 1903, his swan-boat upset and flung him flat upon a painted ocean. In 1924 Curt Taucher, as Siegfried, was climbing the fire-girt rock when he unluckily stepped through a trapdoor...
During the past week the General Motors corporation has been so busy proving itself legally right that it disregarded the fact that most of the country was proving it morally wrong. The curt refusal of Mr. Sloan to sit in on a conference with Miss Perkins and the labor leaders has done more damage to his cause than a hundred rabid speeches by Mr. Lewis ever could...
...committee has been selected, headed by Oscar W. Hausserman, with Thomas J. Campbell handling the publicity. Others on the committee are John Elliott, Robert L. Fisher, Hugh L. Gaddis, Arthur J. Goldsmith, Francis C. Gray, Curt E. Hanse, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ralph Lowell, Clarence B. Randall, Howard C. Reid, Thorvald S. Ross, Lawrence D. Smith, Richard B. Wigglesworth, Raymond S. Wilkins, and Dr. Paul R. Withington...
...street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion's public career. The $1,900,000,000 bonus, its goal...
...author and the artist have collaborated perfectly. The lithographs by Lynd Ward are impressive, the narrative by Granville Hicks is curt and clear. Every Harvard man, every follower of the fight for social justice, every lover of adventure, should own a copy...