Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drayton was the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' second choice for his job, created to root out postwar racing's "undesirable elements." The T.R.A. offered the post first to J. Edgar Hoover, followed his advice when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture...
Xenophobic Frenchmen, who last year wailed over the excessive number of Américains in their country, now grumble that there are not enough G.I.s to escort the Boches. Last week, French indignation reached a new high near Reims, when several hundred demonstrators protested against Nazi P.W. insolence and arrogance...
"Take it slowly, easily," said the blue-grey-eyed psychiatrist (who, as this book's laconic hero, has helped to win its author the $10,000 Harper Prize Novel Contest). "Listen, don't you want me on the couch?" muttered John Brown, who had come to his session...
Postman Snow was burned up to be excluded "on the laconic grounds that I am unacceptable. ... It is a vicious violation of ... freedom of the press." Edgar Snow had visited Mao Tse-tung and his Yenan Communists in 1936, had perhaps done more than any other man to sell their...
Most striking set: a dream sequence designed by Surrealist Salvador Dali. Notable Hitchcock trademark: a comic bit part (Wallace Ford as a traveling salesman from Pittsburgh) whose laconic leering is almost as memorable as the two old-school cricketers of Night Train and The Lady Vanishes.