Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four times the Rt. Hon. James A. Robb has appeared impeccably to present a budget before the Canadian Parliament, and every time has achieved warm applause. Canadians know that he will be crisp, profound and lucid on these occasions. His keen sense of politics humanizes his high, austere ability. Last week he said: "Four years ago, when I presented my first budget, Canada was still suffering from the effect of post-War depression. Today all traces of that depression have disappeared; a spirit of optimism is general, and our domestic and international trade is flourishing." Ergo, Finance Minister Robb presented...
Emotional sequences proceed with similar distinctness, subtle as the Russians, lucid as the French. Twilight is the tragedy of Dietz von Egloff driven to suicide by his thirst for a real fate among peers immured by aristocratic routine. He takes the wife, then the life, of his best friend. From Fastrade, whom he loves, he can evoke nothing but pity. She takes his body home through a spring morning with birds and sunlight making a festival of death...
...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
Competition in the Editorial Department implies a good literary style and an ability for lucid expression within limited space. Candidates will be expected to write editorials daily on topics connected with the University, or on subjects of humorous or political interest...
...Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page or two at a time, he relates brief episodes of camp and trail. They are quiet, unpretentious little sketches, dramatized no whit, yet filled with the mystery and magnitude of nature, wild and human, that the writer has experienced "north...