Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual attempt and that it is carried out in a very unique fashion. With an objective such as it has, it is difficult to see how any book could be made really compelling and not appear forced; certainly this attempt falls short. As a story it is interesting, vivid and effective, but one feels that it should be infinitely more so. Its chief fault is that it is unnatural...
Anyone who has not seen "Old Ironsides", now playing at popular prices at the Metropolitan, has a treat in store which even the propinquity of a dreaded examination cannot, mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution...
However, to anyone who has finished a volume of Hardy, his death comes as something more than a news event. When one recalls the vivid and deep impression indelibly left upon the mind by his masterly novels and the awe and admiration felt for the author the loss becomes a personal one. For while Thomas Hardy in real life might be described as retiring and shy, his dominating philosophy of life and strength of character move through his works of prose and poetry like the spirit of the storm and the whirlwind. And, although gathered to Olympian heights to join...
...bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There...
After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...