Word: curtness
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...Significance. England has been inclined to celebrate this book with song and shouting. Clearly, it surpasses most in rapidity, precision, force. Its people breathe. Its consequences descend inevitably. Its arraignments are terse, detached, restrained; and if its pleasantries are few and curt, so are its unpleasantries. The author's instrument had wide range-from the wild, high notes of Bohemia to the sodden, dry thumps of English respectability. An undisciplined performer might have slipped into coarse discords and fierce hurricanoes of sound and fury. Miss Kennedy, possibly because she is English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy...
...left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with a short-shafted, large-headed club. In the U. S. there is not as much distinction between a "swung" wooden shot and a "hit" iron shot as Tolley makes...
Republicans. "The Republican Convention gave Labor's representatives a brief and curt hearing. The Republican platform ignores entirely the injunction issue. It fails to deal with Labor's right to organize or the right of the workers, even in self-defense, collectively to cease work. That platform sustains the Railroad Labor Board, with all that it means in the direction of governmental coercion of wage-earners. It fails to recommend the ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
Lord Winterton made a few curt remarks about defiance of the Speaker's ruling...
...arriving in time for Wagner's soul-stirring prelude, and then marching out. They reappear for the great love-duet, and go out again. Finally they slink into their seats-just in time for the Liebestod. But let it here be said that this last performance, featuring Herr Curt Taucher as Tristan, Florence Easton as Isolde, and Arthur Bodanzky as conductor, was so good that it compelled many of the most inveterate "duckers" to listen to every note, from the first in the prelude toi the last in the Liebestod...