Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account of the Conference at Haverford and Swarthmore is sympathetic, lucid, and comprehensive. My brother, who has just come from the Conference, is much impressed by the accuracy of your report in the main...
...Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series he did for The New Yorker...
...verse, which endeared her long ago to a liberated generation, has profited by colloquial language and a brisk long line carrying echoes of Ogden Nash more often than Shakespeare. Critics will agree that while many of the speeches Poet Millay has put in the mouths of her characters are lucid because naïve, artful but not meaningful, she has succeeded in dramatizing the rich confusions of U. S. gentlemen and in adding a few of her own. Of the pure cutting edge and organization of first-rate poetry they will find little evidence...
...PROFITS OF WAR-Richard Lewin-sohn-Button ($3). A Frenchman's lucid survey of war profiteering since Caesar's day. Henceforth, he concludes, taking the profits out of war means eliminating indirect business profits: munitions-makers are already subdued to where they do not want war, only a precarious peace...
...able, lucid rebuttal to Gilbert & Sullivan was published recently in Life Insurance Speaks For Itself by M. Albert Linton, head of Provident Mutual Life and president of the Actuarial Society of America (Harper...