Word: laconicism
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Rain or Shine (Columbia). For many years in vaudeville and musical shows Joe Cook has been putting over his personal kind of comedy. In this version of an old Broadway revue, now arranged without music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill...
Later the R-100 poked into a squall. Officers and men clutched for support. Fuel slopped out of tanks. Worse, the hydrogen balloonets were in danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute...
A year ago Explorer Donald Baxter MacMillan expressed the general feeling about such a trip when, in Philadelphia newspapers, he described such an attempt as "suicidal." Replied laconic Sir Hubert: "Perhaps it would be suicidal for Captain MacMillan."
Proud was South Dakota of having the 30th President of the U. S. spend a summer vacation near Rapid City in its Black Hills. Glad was South Dakota when that President electrified the country and drew all citizens' puzzled attention Dakotawards by his ten laconic words: "I do not choose...
Illustrated by big-chiseling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge's 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles away (TIME, Jan. 27). Last week the design committee announced the names and events...