Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted men of His Majesty's fighting forces the name "Fanny" conjures up a vivid image of Dame Fanny Lucy Houston whose social equals call her "Lucy...
...painted the master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...
...Kick Off," the present attraction at the Paramount theatre is a relief to football fans who have been nauseated by the prevailing type of gridiron films, because it combines a credible plot with a more than vivid sketch of a real football game. The crowd, the mud--oh, that mud--and the boisterous enthusiasm contribute to climax the picture with a thrill. One might well offer the management of the theatre that, in order to provide atmosphere it put its renowned cooling system into operation and require the patrons to wear their overcoats...
...Laughing Boy," Mr. LaFarge has searched out and found an elemental people. And again, he has caught, in his peculiarly vivid language, not only rudimentary characters but their lodestone environment. It is high tribute to say of him that he gives a New Englander clear, renewed insight into his surroundings and forebears...
...Quentin Roosevelt, Sigourney Thayer. In the most trying circumstances they succeeded in maintaining a clublike atmosphere at the squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends. Lately he was persuaded to issue it to the public. It is detailed, vivid, gaily dressed with anecdote. Besides many a snapshot the book includes five etchings of planes in combat by another flyer of the group, Architect Lansing C. (''Denny") Hoklen...