Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revue that "does" Manhattan, from the yeggs of the Bowery to the shades of Gramercy Park aristocrats. In its course it sings sentimental ballads, burlesques the Gay Nineties in the lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead of anything Times Square has confected this midsummer, with the possible exception of Texas Guinan's Padlocks...
...vivid though extraneous feature of the public session was a description by Admiral Earl Jellicoe of the War-time exploits of the German raider Berlin-exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...
...broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even Hollywood could have produced a cowboy attired in more complete accordance with the traditions of his calling...
...which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...
TIME, which long ago scored a great hit with our staff for its unequaled and vivid presentation of news events, has recently increased our appreciation of its alert editorial management by publishing the story of the dog with a bone in its throat which was successfully treated in our free small animal clinic, by our veterinarian, Dr. G. R. Hartman. Getting out the bone in itself was not an exceptional feat, though such operations on animals are rare and difficult, and it is high time that the public should know that veterinary practice of the best kind nowadays frequently reaches...