Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sneered M. le General Jean Stuhl during the debate: "I have still a vivid memory of the deplorable impression created among the poilus by the fact that too few Parliamentarians performed their military duty during...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...
...boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world we live in. Flashes of vivid satire, bits of brutal delight gleamed in his dialog like gold nuggets. The rest was sand and water...
...March the season ends. The first three teams in each league struggle against each other to select a champion. These winners play for the World's championship. Addicts pick the Canadians to face either the Rangers, Boston or Detroit for supremacy in this vivid, dangerous diversion...
...course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...