Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denying Mayor Yoneoka's piratical point,* the prosecution argued that anyhow the Death penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been...
...ages (H. W. was 57, Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part of the military authorities, especially when the victims are advanced...
Thank you for your very lucid explanation of the Oregonian's recent metamorphosis [TIME, Jan. 7]. This is a matter which has not been explained in this section...
...used to balance two broiled lamb chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat...while the sun was setting, I was...able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
...liked the work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good reading. They do not write simply or violently enough for my taste. I should like my prose to be lucid, direct and lean." Other books: Plagued by the Nightingale; Year Before Last; Gentlemen, I Address You Privately...