Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King comes curt, clear, complete newsmagazine TIME each week for perusal. Encountered up to your issue of even date were no knocks, no adverse criticism, no subtle insinuations regarding Naval personnel. Breaking this great, good record is the following: "Her job was to steer home 'good' girls looking for sailors, before they got into trouble...
...Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine-gun or snickersnee. General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed wire and trenches, to the Japanese garrison's barracks. Inside he saluted Japanese Major-General Neiji Okamura whom he outranked, signed the curt truce agreement. Then General Hsiung and colleagues returned to Tientsin, prepared to hand their resignations to Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek...
Because TIME arrives six weeks late it is of interest only because it is "curt, clear, complete" and accurate. For these virtues TIME is of value, also on constant test. Our latest test: TIME'S account of De Zeven Provincien, runaway Netherland India battleship, Feb. 20. We were satisfied. The account was TIMEly...
Maximovitch Litvinov, who three weeks ago indignantly refused British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey's curt demand that the British engineers be released instantly and without trial...
...cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give all a curt refusal, and if he be a worldly passerby he will shrink from trusting them with nothing more than the address of an already harassed and bankrupt charity. The obligation exacted by hungry eyes and haggard faces is more immediate than that...