Word: curtness
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When a newsgatherer sent in his card to see Convict Sinclair during visiting hours, he got back a curt message: "Not at home to the press...
...State Theatre of Kovno last week drove the limousine of Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, and, since 1926, Dictator. The limousine stopped in the forecourt of the theatre, an enclosed garden. Out stepped the curt, bristly-pompadoured Professor-Prime Minister, with his wife, his aide-de-camp, his small grandnephew...
...appeal by counsel for the defendant to South African Prime Minister, General the Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog brought a curt reply, "The sentence of flogging must be carried...
...politically expedient to do so, but he kept repeating that Coolidge economy was the priceless ingredient. He carried this thought to the picayune extreme of giving away only the pen nib, and not the pen holder, after signing important bills. The other, philosophical extreme was reached in his curt closing message to Congress and the country last December...
...FRONT PAGE-A savagely melodramatic comedy of Chicago police-court reporters who stoop to scoop and who are masters of the retort curt (TIME, June...