Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vivid Leni...
Thanks for a most vivid and accurate picture of [Professor George Lyman Kittredge]. Many a Harvardman will chortle over...
Your appreciation of "Kitty" was vivid and colorful. However, although I recall his leaving his Shakspere* class in the manner you describe, I do not recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way. The former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
...color reproductions is concerned, the three most popular artists in the world are van Gogh, Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish. Daybreak, Parrish's famed picture showing a boy and girl against a rising sun, has sold over 200,000 copies. Parrish Blue is a well recognized name for the vivid electric blue skies that he has affected for nearly two generations...
...time with his father in the Mediterranean because it is his duty to return to America to college. But Oliver is no mere prig, no stuffed-shirt; it is his heart as well as his mind which calls him to duty, and it is by virtue of this extremely vivid impression of his character that Santayana shows his real insight. It would have been easy to draw a caricature of Oliver--not one novelist in a thousand could have resisted the temptation. But Santayana, despite his innate antipathy to the Puritan ideal, draws "The Last Puritan's" character fairly...