Word: curtness
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...improvement is certainly due to the efficacy of vaccination.* Yet in 1923 there were 21,233 smallpox cases reported; the next year 43,029 (103% increase); and last year 31,037 (decrease of 28% from 1924; increase of 46% from 1923). The analysis of this smallpox situation is extremely curt: the public has become lethargic to preventive activities, feels too secure in its present ignorance of smallpox ravages, should be completely vaccinated...
...workers are striking for the right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...
...Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...
...repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters you receive are terrible and you are good sports to print them so that all may see. As a rule, I find very little fault with...
...many people who have long admired the sensational rise of Mr. Jones were more interested in knowing why, when a new Chairman was being chosen, the President of the Company had been so conspicuously passed over. The Directors' official announcement contained only a curt explanation that might mean anything: "Walter C. Teagle prefers to remain President, and is the Chief Executive officer of the company...