Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From his London interview with Meher Baba, Author Landau got little. But a female disciple in Manhattan gave Landau a graphic description of the holy man's entourage: "He gets up very early. . . . He takes a very hot bath, and his hair is attended to with the greatest care. . . . He then goes from room to room, stops for a while in front of every bed, looks at the sleeping person, and, no doubt, directs in his own way the life of the disciple for the rest of the day. . . . He never reads books, but he knows everything. . . . Baba does...
...RAPE OF AFRICA-Lamar Middleton-Smith & Haas ($3). Brief, graphic study in the European realpolitik ("60 years of duplicity and chicanery") that has partitioned Africa among six land-greedy nations; with the suggestion that the crisis over Ethiopia is only a beginning...
...scalpels and completing his attempt at sex-obliteration in the most thorough manner. Later cutting off the faceless head, he wrapped it in an old white blouse which had been patched under the arms. He sawed off arms and legs which he wrapped in sheets from the London Sunday Graphic for Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor's Daily Herald. Finally Ratanji went somewhat surgically berserk, butchering and slashing the chunks of flesh that had been wife & nurse and at last contriving to dump the lot into a narrow Scottish ravine appropriately known...
...Victor Weybright wrote in the February Survey Graphic: "That 200,000 newcomers to the Federal service have been exempt from civil service in the past three years has alarmed critics of bureaucracy...
...Italian aviators continued to drop bombs on Daggah Bur, a heap of dust that once was a mud village marking the northernmost point of Italy's advance on the South Front. The town was abandoned. Ethiopians insisted that a wounded chicken was the only casualty. ¶ Most graphic description of the reason for the stalling of Italy's advance came last week from United Pressman Webb Miller after making his third passage over the terrifying road between Asmara and Makale, the road over which all supplies for the northern Italian army must pass. Excerpts: "In my newspaper career...