Word: curtness
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...have played it well. Sometimes, like Hornsby, he plays and manages at the same time; usually he directs his team from the field bench. Judge Fuchs is not a professional, not even an able, baseball player. Even if he were, he is too good-natured and kindly to subdue curt umpires and angry, ignorant players. For him to be a manager was absurd and astonishing; he admitted that he would hire Johnny Evers, once a famed player, to be his assistant manager...
...velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably...
Before Her Majesty had time to utter a second queenly remark, her chauffeur came bounding two steps at a time, and uttered curt words which carried conviction to the Cockney wench...
When he looked up from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
Charles Evans Hughes, non-candidate but often-mentioned, had not up to last week sailed for Europe when he had said he was going. A curt secretary announced that Mr. Hughes would sail "about June 19." She exhibited annoyance...