Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gain the lasting goodwill of American youth by removing their awesome Education Lobby from Washington and from every schoolhouse in the country, where their methods of teaching "American history, civil government, and character building" have more to do with the legends of which the Daughters form such a vivid reminder, than they do with modern actuality. TOBERMORY...
Author Kantor's single -eyewitness method shows to best advantage in the earlier phases of the battle, when the action is comparatively simple and concentrated. Some of his vivid pictures of tired, dirty, wounded men, of galloping batteries and matter-of-fact sharpshooters are unforgettable. Later, when he has to describe a two-mile battle line through the eyes of one spectator, he falls back on impressionistic violence that results in confusion. By & large Long Remember is a brilliantly exciting piece of historical fiction, a book that many a reader will remember long...
...future," but to do this alone would give an unfair impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back to the sweeping action and vivid scenery of the silent picture days and away from the courtroom, drawing-room limits that seem to cramp the current crop of talkles, it deserves at least a few words of encouragement...
...seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages, gives us as vivid a picture of the canine world as all of Virginia Wolf's "Flush...
Commissioner Knox sent a vivid, formal report on his dog-pit to the League's committee on the Saar Plebiscite. Sitting in Geneva, the three committee members, Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Argentina's José M. Cantilo, could scarcely believe what they read. Last week they sent for Mr. Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction...