Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just returned from a trip to Europe that ended with a tour of threatened Czechoslovakia, Richmond Holder '40 and John S. Stillman '40 gave a graphic picture of conditions in the country that Hitler is threatening in an interview yesterday...
Meanwhile, the most graphic dispatch of the week from a very meagrely reported war came from the province of Hopeh, a fertile plain lying almost entirely north of the Yellow River, 550 miles from the main theatre of operations...
...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
...years that followed he developed in his Graphic column such Winchellese as "the stem" (Broadway), "gigglewater" (liquor), "flicker" and "moom pitcher," which meant the same thing. One year after Winchell left the Vaudeville News for the Graphic, the News folded. He was on the Graphic until 1929, and three years after he left it for the Mirror, the Graphic folded too. By that time it was estimated that 200,000 New Yorkers would follow Winchell to any paper to which he might...
...graphic art as in his best painting, Gauguin accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose...