Word: curtness
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...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...
...curt, frost-tipped words he warned the members of the upper chamber that if he was to be criticized for their acts and customs in the future, he intended to have more to say about them...
...general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed questioning and repartee in. Pittsburgh, observers were rating him an able opponent of Lawyer Hogan...
...Howell report would have made a small splash indeed in the news if President Roosevelt had not seen fit to slap one of its recommendations down with a curt "No" and to tie a long policy string to another. The investigators thought it would be a good thing to set up a semi-permanent Air Commerce Commission with broad powers over U. S. civil aviation including jurisdiction over rates. Said the President: "In this recommendation I am unable to concur. ... At a later date I shall ask the Congress for general legislation centralizing the supervision of air and water...
...talk was old Emilio Aguinaldo, the patriot who more than a generation ago staged his insurrection against U. S. imperialism. He asked for freedom, not in ten years but much sooner. Senator Tydings turned on him with a curt: "God gave us our brains for thought...