Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having slept in many a foxhole with him, I take TIME to task for a flippantly misleading background sketch of a most able man, neither melancholy nor laconic, and in the vernacular of the "Cousin Jacks" (an Army nickname pinned on Searls because of his fund of Welsh miners'...
The Male Animal (Warner) brings laconic Humorist James Thurber's famed War-Between-the-Sexes to the attention of its biggest audience yet. This semi-ludicrous, semipainful combat, which Thurber wrote all the way into a Broadway hit (with Co-Author Elliott Nugent) two years ago, is the most...
Former journalists are especially valuable, he noted, for they know the background of their country and can discuss the details behind every laconic communique released by the German censorship.
Frederick Searls Jr., 53, a top-drawer mining engineer whose work has taken him to most of the strange, out-of-the-way places which are today's battlefronts. Melancholy, laconic Engineer Searls, who deceptively resembles ineffectual Comedian Victor Moore, was recommended for a defense job by Elder Statesman...
Nice British quip: Pilot Power, off for Dunkirk, asks of a returning fighter pilot: "What's it really like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as...