Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maine's laconic men have never had much natural respect for a woman's judgment. "Give a woman all the advice in the world and then she'll go ashore with both anchors on the bows," they say. But once in a while they have to make...
New Jersey's Republican Representative Frank A. Mathews Jr., who bobs up at long intervals to toss a nutshell on the floor of the House, made a characteristically laconic speech last week. Said he: "Mr. Speaker, I hope somebody will save this country from some of the people in...
Of the fiction, all of which is by Harvard contributors, only James McGovern's "The Sounding Brass" arouses any deep interest in its characters. The story is about a priest who has to go to tell one of his parishoners that she cannot keep the body of her son, killed...
Joe Louis might have slipped as a fighter, but he had not lost his laconic candor. When a reporter asked if he thought Jersey Joe was a second-rater that night, Louis tapped his chest with his finger and said: "I was."
Between the preliminary and final editions of the current catalogue, the Anthropology Department changed its announcements from something approaching zero to something approaching a model for such laconic departments as Economics, Government, and Social Relations. Its descriptions do not challenge the ideal set up by the General Education courses, but...