Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
...marketing, eats but once a day, at the great noon banquet. He has taught and housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller Center panel. For her he predicts a great future...
...schoolteachers were promptly released and forgotten, but in Manhattan able Playwright Odets was boiling with vivid word-pictures: "The food at Tiscornia was a strange broth of malt and beans. The water had an odd odor. The beds had no mattresses and the bare springs dug into our backs. The crude actions of the Cuban Government and the American Embassy make clear the fear on their part of honest investigation. Ambassador Caffery has a heart of Sugar. Vice Consul Donald D. Edgar played both ends against the middle. He is a fish. I am a Liberal, not a Communist...
...Levy's vivid mind, gas for the stoves of London cannot be called safe from the tentacles of the New Deal. "I can assure the House," replied Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare, "that British public utilities users are amply safeguarded in this case by British law and consequently cannot be affected by operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the United States...
...Light Burning" has none of the brittle, blatant sophistication of the tearoom. Rather it has a truer sophistication that is the result of the author's observation and sensitivity. It is a vigorous yet fanciful novel, with vivid, life-sized characters, ideally suited, with its chilling descriptions of frozen lands, for summer perusal...