Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
...extraordinarily vivid and characteristically acid style of these letters can be imagined by any one who has read "The Education of Henry Adams...
Guilty Dummies Sirs: As a TIME subscriber, and a cover-to-cover reader, I want to enter protest against the last paragraph of your interesting and vivid report and description of the goodwill tour of 1,000 businessmen, 20 mi. at sea off Norfolk, Va., which appeared in your issue of Sept...
Although the second and fourth classes, soon to be first and third, move to camp the first of June, the official period does not start until after Graduation. When the last June Week parade is over and Recognition is a vivid memory, when another class has donned the "Army Blue" and the second class has departed on Furlough, the remainder of the Corps settles down to "make" summer camp...
...today, the play's the thing. Cambridge this afternoon will be intrinsically a study in contrasts: a contrast in the grey uniforms "at case" against the Fall bronze of the Yard, and between the spontaneous, vivid motley of fifty thousand civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...