Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died of a dose, not an overdose, of chloral hydrate, not heroin. The distinction: heroin is an out law, habit-forming narcotic. Chloral hydrate...
...SILENT ENEMY?Vivid portrayal of tribal life among the Ojibwa Indians (TIME...
...Hollywood history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also, to see the picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest air spectacle ever projected. They had seen this spectacle woven through a war story of tragedy and cowardice. Despite the vivid dialog of Joseph Moncure (The Wild Party) March who wrote swear words for the actors in defiance of cinema custom, the story seemed inexpert. It told of two British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army...
...iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...
...proceeds by deductive reasoning to solve the mystery of the stone. At times the story is intensely absorbing, then again it becomes dull because of the slow and pedantic mauncy in which the answer is finally reached. The author is too much of a scholar to keep up the vivid and interesting style of the early chapters...