Word: lyrically
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Poet Auslander's chief admiration is John Masefield, whom he calls "The Master Poet. . . . This High Priest of the Commonplace," but unlike Masefield he himself is a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet...
Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...
...budget to bemuse Britain's electorate into sensations of overflowing plenty. If this works, the Conservative Party may be able to win a general election and five more years of power. "Last year," cried the Chancellor, in his at times lyric budget speech, "the people of this country sweetened their lives with 80,000 more tons of sugar, smoked 6,500,000 more pounds of tobacco and washed away their troubles with 270,000,000 pints of beer!" Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance...
...Hitler, emulating Martin Luther, nailed a list of 25 Nazi "theses" to the door of Munich's Hofbräuhaus, and Naziism was on its way. Last week the same man was in the same place, talking over every radio network in Germany at the top of his lyric lungs...
...something more. A tender, ingenuous poetry pervades its tenuous narrative, produces a unique mood which might have resulted in literature from a collaboration by Ernest Thompson Seton and the late W. H. Hudson. Superficially an unlikely anecdote about two animals, it is really a gentle and persuasive nature lyric, expressing, in a photographic style brilliant enough to make it one of the best pictures of the year, the calm, dangerous mystery of mountains, woods and snow...