Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Information, de la Propagande et de la Censure. Deputies agreed the secret session had been one of the most dignified in Chamber history. "It is the journalists who oblige us to make certain sessions stormy," cracked Deputy de la Ferronays. "Since their job is to make a vivid report of everything that goes on in the sessions, we sometimes feel the need of playing roles designed pure and simple for the press gallery...
...most provocative patriotism in the world wear your stars and stripes "undercover"! Let a star-struck slip skitter out from under your navy blue suit. Wear a boldly striped petticoat with a witty bombardment of stars on its bodice. The whole idea's as fresh and vivid as the red carnation in your best bean's buttonhole. It's as deliciously daring as the gusty winds of March will let you be. Macy...
...Hawaii Artist O'Keeffe happily painted fishhooks, tropical flowers, lava bridges, waterfalls-but nary a pineapple. To Dole on her return she presented a vivid red canvas of crab's claw ginger, a lush green papaya tree (Dole's rival is papaya juice...
Green Hell (Universal) has nothing but its title in common with Author Julian Duguid's brutally vivid account of physical torments in the Bolivian jungles. The picture dramatizes the dangers run by a group of treasure seekers trapped in a fetid South American jungle between a tribe of head-hunting Indians and Joan Bennett...
Hasty, exuberant, The Ail-American Front was evidently talked into the typewriter. But Aikman's analysis of South American economics, politics and states of mind is based solidly on a vivid air view of the continent (its great mountains isolating nation from nation, slowing trade and intercourse), on a perspective of 400 years of feudalism (the conquistadors having had, unlike North American pioneers, a glut of Indian manpower from the first), and on a good deal of shrewd observation on the ground. He succeeds better than most previous writers in conveying the fact that "our national individualities are shockingly...