Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank of a colonel, retired at the age of 41, an officer without distinction. He was fished out of the half-pay pool by General Sir George Luck to write a cavalry book, which was subsequently called "a masterpiece of lucid explanation and terse precision." His literary ability had undoubtedly saved him from obscurity and earned for him the half true sobriquet of "the luckiest man in the Army." Later events proved the Army to be the luckier...
...admire your unequaled faculty for condensing a great bulk of news into a few lucid paragraphs. And your knack for puncturing bull bladders by clever and oblique hits and subtle passes adds spice to your splendid talent...
...word at this moment is one, not of eulogy, but of congratulation for the opportunity now opening before him to devote himself to the congenial work of literary production. The volume of his achievement in this field is already considerable. As a writer of graceful verse and of a lucid prose always carrying a message of hopeful courage without reproach, he has a wide audience already assured...
...COLLAPSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE? Karl Friedrich Nowak?Dutton ($8.00). A searching analysis of the main events which led to the dissolution of the German and Austrian Empires? lucid, authoritative and of compelling interest...
...details with regard to the position, as regards relative numbers of the fleets, I would venture merely to refer any one interested in the matter to Senator Hale's admirably lucid statement, with as many statistical tables as are good for the digestion, which is contained in The Congressional Record of May 23, Vol. 65, No. 138. There you will find the whole position stated with the utmost clearness. I do not need to go to any British source for a fair statement of the position-I am well content to leave the matter in the capable hands...