Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be an officer in the British Army, by a legislative council and a native representative assembly. Bermuda's last governor was Lieut. General Sir Louis Jean Bols, who died four months ago. London politicians were still debating his successor last week. The tourist's first, most vivid impressions of Bermuda are white roofs and bicycles. Bermudian houses, particularly the newer ones, are pink, white, green, yellow, blue, but their roofs, even those on the Anglican Cathedral at Hamilton are uniformly of brilliant white limestone coral. Reason: there are no potable wells on the islands; all drinking water...
...flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings, by theatrical productions of every kind, by romantic fiction, by amorous and frivolous novels, by cinematographs portraying in vivid scene, addresses broadcast by radio telephony, in short by all the inventions of modern science, the sanctity of marriage is trampled upon and derided; divorce, adultery, all the basest vices either are extolled or at least depicted in such colors as to appear to be free of all reproach...
...exhibit of Chaldean objects of art. One is astounded to learn that such exquisite workmanship should be the relic of a civilization stretching into the dimness of pre-Biblical days along the Tigris and Euphrates. These articles, which archaeologists have unearthed in a state of excellent preservation, give a vivid portrayal of the former life in Ur of the Chaldees...
Sirs: In your vivid summary of H. R. Knickerbocker's remarks on the U. S. S. R., you refer to the relaxations enjoyed by tired Proletarian Dictators on the tropical beaches of the Crimea as "nude mixed bathing" (TIME, Dec. 22) This is perhaps partially true. But it would be a mistake to lead the sensitive readers of TIME into believing that a Soviet bathing beach is sort of glorified American bathing beach (with couples all jumbled up together) minus those essential superficialities, such as bathing suits, on which our great civilization is founded. The most popular bathing beaches...
...Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for his powerful and vivid art of description and his ability to use wit and humor in the creation of original characters...