Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-boiled boss. Miss Weber, the stenographer all looked upon with appreciative eyes, and Kubee, the molde who didn't like landlords, all make an impression that is not easily forgotten. The author minces no words and his vocabulary is natural to the men he portrays. His style is lucid and flowing. He will hold your interest from the first page...
Died. Alfred Richard Orage, 61, British economist and journalist, editor of The New Age from 1907 to 1922, of The New English Weekly from 1932 until his death; in London. Lucid and incisive-minded. Editor Orage excited more British and U. S. writers than did any other single man of his time. In The New Age he launched 40 famed writers including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Rebecca West, The Brothers Powys...
...enemies never doubted he was able, but Lloyd George still has the point, of view of an unreconstructed pre-War statesman. He still believes the Allies won the War. He still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister of England is detailed but lucid; he writes trenchantly, aggressively, persuasively, in thoughts of one syllable. His book, when completed, will fit more neatly than most into the statesmen's monument to the Unknown Soldier...
Such readers are often made uneasy by the linguistic vagaries of contemporary poets. But Edna St. Vincent Millay is still a lucid poet. Though it is a modern belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...
...stories, as the wrapper announces find their grace and power and conviction as they reflect his own nimble curiosity and his insatiable demand for now affirmations of life." Whether, however, they present as "lucid and honest a vision as Whitman or Rousseau" is a matter for future generations to decide. "They do", however, "comprise realistic and experimental stories, travesties, and allegories, tormented searchings and sardonic commentaries...