Word: curts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...