Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Laconic. When the most gifted of the post-war novelists rebuilt the first hours of the war it was with imaginations darkened by the memory of the 900,000 English, the 1,385,000 Frenchmen, the 1,600,000 Germans, who were dead in battle. The agony of Verdun...
The eloquent speakers in December 7 are the laconic, who marked their feelings as they said, "Well, it's here," or the heartbroken who said nothing at all. There is a simplicity in the reactions of the people which must seem childish to the Nazis, infantile to the Japanese...
The Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over...
The Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment...
> TIME, too, hopefully hails He-Man, Brain-Man Searls, who is melancholy, laconic, regular-and who himself was authority for TIME'S statement that he knew nothing about ammunition.-ED.