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Word: vividness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house in this story of Myra Henshawe stood behind a tall iron fence in a ten-acre park at Parthia, Ill. Myra, an orphan, was John Driscoll's great-niece and he brought her up there, a forceful, coarse old Irishman and a vivid, a wild little girl. She had jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...ever achieve) as they are convinced of the future greatness of their stupid, bespectacled little boy, Martikins. Then, when the pipe turns up, when the latch is post-poned again, the party over, their everlasting Smithness becomes contented retrospect. Martikins emits a flash of adolescent near-greatness, marries a vivid girl, almost becomes a pianist, and the Smiths are hurt, alarmed, until the flash is extinguished. Everlasting Smithness shows now as endless piddling, now as hope eternal. It ends as everlasting Smithness, a vegetable condition as happily comfortable as it is unadventurous. Symptomatic of the prevalence of Smithness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...program will be the Beethoven "Eroica Symphony." In his production last Saturday night, Mr. Koussevitzky multiplied the wood winds into fours and strengthened the brass against the weight of the string choir. This rendered it, in the opinion of many of those who heard it, the most vivid performance of "The Eroica" that Boston has heard in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KOUSSEVITSKY TO LEAD FIRST SANDERS CONCERT | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

...torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Hollywood | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Mencken). The result is most vivid, so many unexpected angles appear, so cleverly arranged. There are letters from the mother's onetime butler to his wife in England; letters from a sea captain with whom John rounded the Horn; letters between John's meat-packing Chicago in-laws; letters and statements of his women, "good, bad, but never indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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