Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most vivid childhood memory" Scot MacDonald conjured thus: "It is very hard on a frosty morning. We have to get up while it is still dark, and we trudge a mile or two along a frost-bitten dirt road...
With a hasty word here & there Mr. Smith glosses over the massacres and riots that once were such vivid reminders of Chicago; and over Alphonse ("Scarface" ) Capone and Cicero. Swashbuckling William Hale Thompson is never mentioned by name. Corrupt governments act-politely adumbrated. Of the city's newspapers the only mention concerns their buildings...
...illustrate the economic factors involved. He hopes to clarify the exaggerated impressions that are so current with regard to the severity of rural life; and show how these remote patterns of living are affected by disturbances in capitalistic civilizations. He wants the class to have something more vivid than cold statistics upon which to base their opinions. The experiment is being conducted in a tentative spirit, without faddism. He has no intention of allowing the standard of scholarship to be relaxed...
...artists in the country. It is in truth a rhapsody of song in which the orchestra, the choir, and the few dancers that there are blend together to produce an altogether pleasing effect. Both Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "St. James Infirmary" are revived in a new and vivid manner. In the first mentioned number, the finale to the first part of the program, the climax of the evening is reached, especially in the parts where Annanias Berry (the most elongated and the most able of the Berry brothers) races in to do his almost incredible dances...
...14th and 15th Centuries bubonic plague devastated Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, killed 60,000,000. Boccaccio's De cameron contains a vivid description of that epidemic in Italy: Daniel Defoe's History of the Plague of 1665 describes a visitation when 70,000 died in London. To prevent plague's spread, Venice segregated victims for 40 days (quaranta giorni) and thus originated quarantine...