Word: curtness
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...capacity, enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...
...evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous officials and attendants took up their allotted...
...great score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods...
...father was a barber ..." With this curt outline of his genealogy, William Hoppe, billiard "champion of champions," opens his autobiography,* proceeds to tell how he learned to play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe...
...good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish extravagances of color, and their consciences will no longer be troubled by curt, unanswerable commands...