Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsreels of this incident had also not been snipped, into court also was haled Gaumont-British News Films, facing heavy penalties in the most vivid demonstration in years that Britain enjoys neither freedom of the press nor freedom of the films. The New York Times hazarded the bold guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
...Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting...
...night last week on the island of Hawaii, a Territorial Forester named Leslie W. Bryan had a vivid dream. In it he saw a dirty, ragged, wretched soldier at a certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...
...another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
Last year, world-traveled Author William Buehler Seabrook published Asylum, a vivid description of his seven-month stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...