Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motte, S. C. Once a winter she goes to New York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet Sister Mary, Though Ethel Barrymore made no stage success of Scarlet Sister Mary, this time cinemen are reported to be dickering for the rights already...
...dashing part to play. "During the war, and later during the Revolution, we wandered in and out of the confusion, always a little detached from all of it. Though we fought and were killed, we were in spirit really onlookers." Onlooker Boleslavski found that the scenes were vivid though the play was bad. One of the scenes: Near the officers' mess lived an old man who had, besides large greenhouses for raising cucumbers, a pretty young wife. Every time an officer enjoyed her favors a dish of fresh cucumbers would appear at table. The Colonel innocently complained about...
...violently dislike to up-cudgel over old issues, but the occasion makes move vivid our recognition of the utter absurdity of dormitory regulations. Here is an affair intended primarily as an outlet for the social pursuits of freshmen and non-Hellenics, and yet an aged and Puritanical doctrine prevents them from enjoying it to the fullest extent...
...vivid small canvasses by Lureat and Gaston-Louis Roux, done in a rather abstract and cubistic style are good examples of this branch of modern art. Watercolors by E. F. Noyes '32 and Professor Pope of the Fine Arts department are of particular importance in this exhibit. Etchings, lithographs, and engravings by Rembrandt. Van Dyck, Nanteull, Daumior, and J. S. Plaut '33 among others, are also exhibited...
...embryonic plumbing, and tries to carve his initials on the Lima cathedral. From the Andes to the Atlantic, northern South America offers: the world's largest untamed (but travel-easy) wilderness, peerless hunting, excellent fishing, real but tractable savages, colorful waterways and jungle paths, and altogether, the most vivid and exotic primitive scene left in this...