Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history and economics at Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio), the great political names in Ohio were McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles...
...canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney as Harry Spats, who combines the business of a village haberdasher with that of a king of the dope-sellers. It is worth a vialt to "The Scarlet Fox" to see Mr. Sweeney and Miss Chambers turn the vivid dross of a gaudy melodrama into the real theatrical doing...
...fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...
Thus spoke last week Secretary of Labor James John Davis, spurred to vivid language by cries of "unemployment" rising throughout the land. Where, how much and why is "unemployment...
...fact of the matter probably is that public life in our own times is poorly organized for great adventure and much better organized for regularly. Adventure has made a few successful men in politics, but it has unmade many moves. Men like Curtis picturesque, daring, headlong, vivid come to Washington and are swallowed by the system. Hitherto bold, they cover up, play safe, risk nothing, watch their chances and advance by inches...