Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...christened Eliza Wyche Hitchcock, which she soon changed to Lily for euphony. Her father, a doctor, followed the Gold Rush with the high title of "Medical Director of the Pacific Coast." Lily, aged 7, sailed around the Horn with her parents. Her first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...
...courtroom stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances...
Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes...
...exhibition of Renaissance drawings started yesterday at the Germanic Museum and will continue until the last of April. It contains a large collection of reproductions illustrating the development of German graphic arts from the middle of the 15th Century to the middle of the 16th, with special emphasis on the work of Durer and the two Holbeins...
...Author. Versatile but able, Gilbert Vivian Seldes is the only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard...