Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular while remaining an individual. His Headmaster, the late J. E. C. Welldon, who became Bishop of Calcutta, noted the 14-year-old boy's "love and veneration" for the English language. He quoted Shakespeare by the scene. Canon James William Sackett Tomlin of Canterbury writes: "The one vivid memory that I have of him is [his] darting up during a house debate, against all the rules, before he had been a year in the house, to refute one of his seniors and carry all before him with a magnificent speech...
...second one by Fredric March in 1931. Please permit me to correct you; there was still another version, which as a small boy I saw in 1912 or 1913. The picture made such an impression on me, resulting in several nightmares, that I still have vivid recollections of it; the name of the actor who portrayed the dual role was King Baggot, who I believe in those days was quite a "big name" in movies...
...Most vivid impressions of the field, on which the Russians had driven the Germans back about 15 miles in three weeks' fighting, were those of Cyrus L. Sulzberger, correspondent of the New York Times and nephew of its Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Wrote Correspondent Sulzberger...
...memories center about two scenes, which I may mention because they are so vivid to me and because they could be paralleled in the experience of many others. The first was a meeting of hi seminar at 8 Hilliard Street, at which I was the first member of the course to read a paper...
Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...