Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young tutor in a Harvard House is a sadly abused individual. The other day in Leverett House, one of the newer resident gentlemen attempted to walk nonchalantly into the library without showing his card to the haughty librarian. The latter immediately accosted him with a curt, "Where's your card...
...Hanfstaengl to keep the proposal secret, until it had been passed upon in accordance with customary procedure. It cannot be denied that the Press Agent has a flair for publicity. However, is letter, making the offer is couched in the friendliest of terms, in no sense meriting so curt and caustic a reply. It should be noted that the proposed scholarship was to have been "assigned for work covering one year, six months to be spent in Germany's art center, Munich, the remainder in any other German university...
That indeed is a pleasant thought Who would believe that someone, somewhere in the world has felt just as we have when we received a curt little notice beginning, "We are aorry to inform you--". It's a small world...
...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
...Germany. Rumors spread quickly that General von Ribbentrop was also in London to try t arrange purchase of 150 more British engines for commercial purposes, of course, since Britain has a special law preventing the sale of war supplies to any foreign power except under special government license Very curt was the British Government last week to the French Embassy's suggestion that such powerful air plane engines as the Armstrong Siddeleys might easily be used in bombers...