Word: curtness
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...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
...Germany. Rumors spread quickly that General von Ribbentrop was also in London to try t arrange purchase of 150 more British engines for commercial purposes, of course, since Britain has a special law preventing the sale of war supplies to any foreign power except under special government license Very curt was the British Government last week to the French Embassy's suggestion that such powerful air plane engines as the Armstrong Siddeleys might easily be used in bombers...
...perfectly arranged and executed masterpiece within the scope of his capabilities. This he proceeded to carry out in a fashion acceptable even to the extremely fastidious taste of the President, who, unbeknown to the Great Lord of the Kitchen, carefully inspected everything before dismissing the man with his customary curt...
Miriam Hopkins is one of the few cinemactresses who can face a camera and, without speaking or scratching her nose, convey the impression that her head is full of thoughts. Consequently, scenes in All of Me which show her as an attentive audience to the curt love making of Raft and his mistress are more effective than they should be. The picture is a pee-wee parable, strident, quick and insincere. Grisly shot: Raft's jump...
...some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what it was to be efficient. In the last half of that year United Fruit's income was nearly three times that...