Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week the 30 enlisted men and one officer, who make up the detachment, mounted their little ponies, and in their vivid blue, red-striped uniforms, with sabres flashing, pennants streaming, charged past in review before U. S. officers and guests at Peking's Breckinridge Field. It was their last review. With the Japanese patrolling the city, U. S. Army authorities decided to disband and dismount the Horse Marines, shunt half the personnel to Tientsin, transfer the remainder to other marine units...
Extending far up into the sky was a vivid red, which later faded to a milky way effect. The sight had a peculiar reaction on our student body, which, two years ago, endured a double tornado with mingled excitement and horror. Without a doubt, Gainesville, Ga. is the city for unusual weather. ANNE BARBARA GLENN...
...motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
...fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample panels in this medium displayed in last week's show, two vivid abstractions by Balcolm Greene and Eugene Morley and a panel of four decidedly white-collar gentlemen by Elizabeth Oldswed showed best its wide range of possibilities...
...mildly entertaining tale of an enterprising Irish family, generously sprinkled with songs by Miss Faye and with first-fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power. As it is, however, the fire provides a brilliant climax to the human-interest story, and supplements the historical background with as vivid and absorbing a spectacle as has been filmed in many...