Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more enterprising even reproduced old paintings like The Doctor and Washington Crossing the Delaware. Most subjects were done in bas-relief. Although whispering lovers and mermaids survived all passing fancies, religious figures were ruled out some 17 years ago when a colored life-size Crucifixion (green cross, brown Christ, vivid red thorns and nails) remained intact after a rainstorm and such throngs of the pious came to kneel and pray before it that bathers were inconvenienced...
Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings out in vivid colors the emotions and the intellectual ambitions which resulted in the works of Dickens. Thackeray, and all the rest...
...realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty and little-known episode in the history of Asia Minor. As usual he gives his far-off tale the vivid immediacy that has won him a place in the first rank of historical novelists...
...most vivid memories of Robert House Colley is that of ripping off rapid-fire calculations for Battery A of the 307th Field Artillery during the battle of St. Mihiel, standing behind some ruins with rain pouring down on his maps and tissue paper tracers while a private tried ineffectually to hold a pup tent over his head. Second Lieutenant Colley retained his passion for mathematics, returned from the War to put it at the service of finance in the treasurer's office of Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. Last week, on the retirement of William Mitchell Irish...