Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested in the Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudraye will take pleasure in seeing her displayed over at least ninety-five per cent of the entire length of her newest film. Her story is that of a poor but honest lass from a downtown burlesque show. She is vital. She turns handsprings, plays with a parrot. She is not like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine manners destroy her piquant charm. She reverts to handsprings...
...certainly a physical property, a behavior of a colloidal miscella [grain] of a particular constitution. In order to study this constitution, this behavior, we must necessarily turn to the smallest particle of autonomous living matter, where life presents itself in its most elementary form, where the complexity of the vital phenomena is least extensive. This infinitely small being which it is necessary to study is, therefore a protobe [protos=first, bios= life] and to be even more specific, it is that one which can most readily be observed, the bacteriophage." The quotation is from a new book, The Bacteriophage...
...Come to our villages and read the endless list of their dead and make comparisons, if you will. Was this not a 'bank account'? The loss of this vital force of youth...
Summary of vital facts: 22 persons were killed and $84,000,000 worth of government property was destroyed. The cost of constructing the cellar storage plants was lately estimated...
...most interesting part of the United States today is the South. There is not the slightest doubt of that. . . . The growth here is greater than anywhere else; the changes are more vital and rapid; the tides of industry, agriculture and population are set in this direction; the real development is down in Dixie, not out in the West. It is plain as can be that in some more or less distant day the weight of wealth that has so long enabled East and North to dominate the rest of the country will be shifted to this section...