Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver. Aline MacMahon is Yates Martin's first wife; Bebe Daniels is his second. They help Actor Robinson make Silver Dollar a vivid and perceptive cinema biography in which the weakest moment is one of the truest to fact: Yates Martin strolling into his Denver Opera House when there is no one there, suffering the heart attack that causes his death...
Seen in such a light, the modest note of success, assumes more significance than would be implicit in a simple justification. "The trends in the College," he remarks, "have been toward a less vocational objective, a recognition of the principle of self education, and a stimulation of more vivid intellectual interests... All the more notable changes that have been made...have been designed to promote the four trends, and especially the last... They are merely a means to an end, and others might have been quite as effective; but these are the ones we have tried, and it would seem...
Short, thick-necked, addicted to pipes and vivid neckties. Major Seymour is the first dyed-in-wool operations man to pre side over American Airways. He served with the Army Air Corps overseas, re turned to become consulting engineer to the Chief of Army Air Service. Shortly after National Air Transport was organized in 1926, and before it began service, "Bing" Seymour joined its ranks. He remained with it until a few months ago when he resigned as vice president in charge of operations (of United Airlines, which" had absorbed NAT). To him went much credit for early airmail pioneering...
...impish Iturbi to play in his neat, polished style. Chopin and Brahms showed him expertly romantic. Liszt exercised his strong, fleet fingers. But none of these great ones overshadowed the man named Bennett. He contributed four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed...
...putting his men through fairly simple building-up, exercises since the Yale football game; but now that he has a more manageable group, he plans to start preparations for the hard season ahead. Already a program of intensive training has commenced, and the men in the squad have a vivid impression of the arduous routine work through which they will be put. They must be in topnotch shape for their first match, against M.I.T., scheduled for next Tuesday...