Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a thrilling subject: women in politics. Nor such a vivid story: yesterday, Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, said that women should drop feminism and sex-consciousness in politics and "get down to work"; today, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rogers of the National Woman's Party retorted that she and her friends would stay "proudly feministic...
...England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' - Herbert and Edward Quick - Holt ($5). Vivid history of a colorful epoch...
While there is, of course, little ground for Mr. Nathan's thesis besides those which are self-confessedly based on sentiment, the actuality of the anti. English feeling, unfortunate though it be, is none the less vivid. There is absolutely no foundation for such a condition--unless one-accepts the Nathan arguments; officially the two English speaking countries were never so close as today. And yet continental travellers admit that German welcomes, in spite of the late war, are as warm or warmer than English. The explanation may lie in Mr. Nathan's expose of the national prejudices...
...puddle. Dean Alphonse G. Eberle of the Law School of St. Louis University, with Casey propped up in a chair and Hallisey pinioned down by angry students who threatened to take revenge, tried to get at what had happened. Frightened students paraded before him. All their stories were vivid. No two were alike. Some had it that Casey had got up to throw Hallisey out of the window. Some had it that Hallisey had snatched his knife from Casey. Some had it that Casey, not Hallisey, had first said "funny fellow" and other words. "But the stabber," gasped one student...