Word: vibrant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
Born to Be's illustrator, young Mexican Miguel de Covarrubias, chiefly known in the U. S. for his drawings in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, provides splendiferous and glaring drawings, appropriate to the vibrant story, exhibiting his amazing knack for racial characteristics...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...
...Name, please?" whispers the aide, and repeats the answer to the President, who says "Good evening" and gives the guest's hand one firm vibrant grip, with a little final jerk which draws the guest in front of the First Lady almost before he can realize that his moment has come and passed. The First Lady repeats her husband's greeting and offers her hand...
Commenting afterward upon the new treaty, His Holiness exclaimed in vibrant tones of pious emotion: "It gives God back to Italy, and Italy to God!" Of Benito Mussolini, who made the treaty possible, Pope Pius mystically observed: "There was revealed to us a man whom Providence caused us to meet...