Word: laconicism
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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...
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'...
> 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.
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...