Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lord Albert Victor Alexander coined a phrase to make vivid a threat: he warned his people that they were now witnessing "The Battle of the Atlantic." This was not a matter of slow attrition: this thing would have all the hazards and blood and suddenness of a pitched battle...
Died. Sherwood Anderson, 64, Ohio businessman who walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...
...look back upon one of its best seasons of musical stage. And with "Cabin in the Sky" alone, the year wouldn't be exactly dull. Albert Lewis and Vinton Freedley have blown into Beantown a breath from the South, a pageant-like play of dusky dancing, spiritualistic singing and vivid settings, which has left critics winded right and left...
...Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay of Pépé is vivid because it is told without frills. Newsreel true are the unpretentious, inexpensive sets...
Through these trials and tribulations, Actress Scott gives a graceful performance in the time-hallowed actors' feat of getting old convincingly. The acting performances in Cheers For Miss Bishop are smooth and polished all around. But the story is a" dull record punctuated with some vivid moments. It has at times the musty odor of a family album. It is authentic, but the breath of life...