Word: curtness
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...Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince of the German principality of Lippe conferred on "Benno's" mother and her descendants the princely title of Lippe-Biesterfeld...
Time & again a curt long distance call from the French Cabinet to the Rumanian Cabinet has blocked the dismissal of M. Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster...
...Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington, Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter in 1,000 exasperated words...
...TIME wishes to abide by its slogan, "Curt, Clear, Complete" it will refrain from publishing second-hand information of superficial nature culled from unreliable sources...
Never has TIME'S contumely been so curt, clear and concise, never have its prejudices been so transparent as in its report of the Soviet- Uruguay business at Geneva (TIME, Feb. 3, p. 16). . . . You make a point of observing that Litvinoff is a Jew, that he barely got by as a traveling salesman, that he acted as a "fence" for Stalin and "other terrorists" and that he is "prone to shout 'Forged!' " when confronted by an opponent's evidence. What about the Uruguayan Minister, who is as much a party to the incident as Litvinoff...