Word: laconicism
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A specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished...
The Author. Ernest Hemingway's father, a doctor of Oak Park, Ill., last year committed suicide while in ill health. He saw little of his son, for the novelist, following, athletic U.. S. schooldays, Wardays on the Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in...
Besides the laconic announcements there were plenty of other reasons why New York gasoline was cheaper. For one thing there are the figures of gasoline overproduction. For another thing independent dealers have been cutting gasoline prices. One company said: "Where competition is so keen it is necessary to meet the...
Tears rolled down the rugged Warren cheeks and were frankly wiped away by a large white handkerchief as the Senate rose en masse to applaud unstintedly its laconic patriarch.
Poet Masters is seldom so "poetic" as that. He is more particularly a creator of people in laconic, lead-colored phrases.