Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
...Good, though 63 years old, emerged favorably from the anesthetic. He gave his wife lucid instructions about pressing War Department business. From his bedside went incessant reports to the White House. Two days after the operation he began to sink. At night President Hoover went to the hospital sickroom. "How are you, my dear friend?" he said. The Secretary mumbled feebly, inaudibly, tried to express appreciation, slumped back unconscious...
...double entendre which is allowed to appear, lucid and poetical, between obstetrical jokes, the acerbities of the Pickle women and the antic gaieties of Hatchways and Fawcett. is ascribable to the author of the play, Kate Parsons. That it makes of The Commodore Marries so funny, so human, so sad a play is doubtless due largely to the direction of Arthur Hopkins and to the sympathy and skill of Walter Huston's acting...
Competition. So complete, so thoughtfully lucid is the White Act, that its meaning could not be twisted to meet the desires of the most ingenious mergophile. If the union of I.T.&T. with R.C.A. Communications will "substantially lessen competition," the Lamont-Young deal will be held a violation of the law, will doubtless be haled before the courts. As Negotiators Lamont and Young are famed not only as financiers, but also as highly ethical businessmen and citizens, they could scarcely plan to flout the law. The only possible alternative, therefore, is the proposition that radio and telegraph...
...your lucid narrative report [TIME, Feb. 4] of the events leading up to the resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little you appear to make one statement that can hardly be justified, in view of your accustomed nose for facts...