Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Must a headmaster be a contortionist, or is "Big Dick" Richards an exception? TIME does not specify, but the description (Aug. 10) is vivid: "Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head...
Cora Carhart Larkin's memory is vivid. Nevertheless, President Garfield's plan was to go by train to Jersey City, board a yacht, cruise up the Hudson, proceed by train two days later to Williamstown, thence go to Maine as the guest of James G. Blaine...
...wholesale cigaret price, the declaration of the regular dividends by Westinghouse, Anaconda, Baltimore & Ohio. Stocks with interests in South America soared on a baseless rumor that the President would soon make an important announcement regarding credits to Latin American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that old bull war chant of the Chicago Wheat Pit: "He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back...
...Green Hell" is essentially a book of adventure; it is valuable for its life not its artistry. For this reason it benefits greatly by being a series of vivid and exciting incidents rather than a diary-like account of a journey. The author has the fortunate quality of being able to concentrate the action of the trip without robbing the account of its reality. In fact, the effect of reality is the book's major triumph. While the author cannot be compared to such a man as Conrad in conveying atmosphere and background, in giving a living, accurate, and effective...
...five rooms and hallway that constitute the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building, Manhattan, last week hung the best collection of modern painting yet seen there-woodcuts and paintings by Gauguin, several vivid Cezannes, a Seurat seascape, a colorful Degas, splendid examples of Frenchmen Monet, Renoir, Redon, Daumier, Picasso, Matisse, Guys and of U. S. Artists Davies, Charles and Maurice Prendergast, Dougherty, Kuhn. More newsworthy than the exhibition's quality, however, was the fact that these paintings were now the Museum's property. Before the public was invited to look, a memorial service was held...