Word: laconicism
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In barricaded Jerusalem last week a Briton, about to move into a requisitioned Jewish house, found a laconic note left for him: "My house-your castle." It was a pithy oversimplification of the whole Palestine issue. Last week Britain, unable to work out a division of Palestine's living...
The specter of World War III was conjured up by writer after writer on the atomic bomb, notably John Hersey in the laconic, harrowing Hiroshima; and also by the New Yorker's E. B. White in his earnest tract, The Wild Flag; by Sumner Welles in Where Are We...
By means of spotters directing the defense from second story stations throughout the University Hall area, and the unbending line of the reserves under the command of Sergeant John Twomy, the Yale charge was quickly converted into "a pleasant song feast" according to Randall's laconic summation.
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...