Word: curtness
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...Through the long winter months the thing continued, and when the snow melted and trees began to send forth their fragrant greenery Cupid rasped his horny palms together in grim satisfaction. Hymen's gay preparations filled the balmy air. Now comes the insidious note into the happy melody, a curt note from the girl's father...
...either case the result is the same when faced by the curt statement of the Athletic Committee that it "has declared J. Robert Haley '36 ineligible for further intercollegiate competition." From this decision there can be no appeal unless the supposed violation should be proved false, a circumstance which seems extremely remote in view of the importance of the affair and the consideration officials have been giving it for days past...
...Heard in silence a curt rebuff administered by Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to the Leader of the Labor Party, "Old George" Lansbury, who proposed, "His Majesty's Government, in conjunction with the Government of the United States, should revive the World Economic Conference and arrange to distribute the World's economic resources so that countries like Italy, Japan and Germany, whose needs for expansion are generally admitted, could get what they need without aggression...
Front Page Woman (Warner). Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis), crack reporter of the Star, scoops her fiance Curt Devlin (George Brent), crack reporter of the Express, on the murder of a theatrical producer. Thereafter, the two engage in a good-humored but energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before...
...with her handsome new Danish husband sped Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Late that night they drove into San Francisco, put up in the bridal suite of a hotel. Next morning the Count handed newshawks typewritten slips of paper setting forth that his first name was "Court-not Curt or Kurt." He announced that he was paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping, dancing...