Word: curtness
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...Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under the command of your Majesty...
Summoned by a curt order, the Premier's sleek but thunderous motor shot to the portals of his residence, the Villa Toronia;* drew up with a screech...
This extravagant denouement to the Pilsudski revolution (TIME, May 24 et seq.) followed Marshal Pilsudski's refusal of the presidency, to which Parliament elected him (TIME, June 7), and his curt intimation to the astonished Deputies that they had best elect "honest Ignatz Moscicki," heretofore a total political nobody, but an intimate of Pilsudski...
...Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer Everett C. Nelson did on top of a 45-foot pole near Niagara Falls. But most extraordinary of all was a curt report concerning a certain Mrs. Mary Regina Smith of Fabens...
...York National Guard, he disapproves of emphasis on things military. The other week he said so plainly and publicly, ignoring the fact that he was to be the commencement speaker at the New York Military Academy's graduation exercises. Last week his intended hosts wrote a curt note withdrawing their invitation...