Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...
...TIME: Curt, clear but incomplete. In TIME of March 9, p. 12, paragraph 7, "Late in entering the fight, Commander O'Neil made up for lost time by bringing the full political pressure of his huge organization to bear upon Congress." There is no mention whatsoever of any other veteran group in your entire story. It is time the public of the nation realized that Commander O'Neil and his huge organization do not represent all the World War veterans. In the 1930 national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American...
...primitive Kentucky murderer, Curt Jett, 55, became a Baptist preacher at Union City, Ky. last week. The incident recalled the fast fading culture of mountainous Kentucky...
...wiped each other out fighting for its possession. Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed...
Birth Control. Secretary Wilbur also got into a fracas, but outside the agenda of the conference. Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, president of the American Birth Control League and a conference invitee, wanted the conference to report on birth control. Her efforts (she said) "brought only ridicule and curt replies. . . . Not a single committee was willing to let us put this problem before them." Impatient, she scolded at sociologists: "They are still governed by sentiment and tradition. . . . They refuse to apply biology, even though this science has been concerned with defectives for years. America should not have 10,000,000 defective...