Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumor had it (and the chiefly interested party-John Hertz-refused to make denial), that the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. - makers of the vivid yellow things that flit the streets of the nation's cities as their meters tick off fares-was to be merged with the General Motors Corp...
...scare their offspring. Now, soothed by the years, they are hardly aware that some 400,000 Mormons still revere the much-married patriarch who managed people by telling them to believe in him or "go to Hell across lots." This patriarch's works constitute the most vivid chapter in native religious history and an impressive section of the chronicle of the Far West...
...much interested in an article which appeared in the CRIMSON on last Saturday, May 16, in which the methods and manners of Oxford tutors were described with kindly justice by Dr. Brinton. His rapid and clear survey gives a vivid picture of Oxford life and it is a considerable achievement to have simplified without distortion the mass of inconsistencies and inefficiencies which is Oxford. I can only recall one neater sketch. It is this...
...importance. A little Irish blood goes a long way toward making a poet and I suppose there is Irish in Mr. Connelly (and in Mr. Marquis). If you are interested in the graceful, the light, the quixotic and the truly humorous, watch Marc Connelly. Beggar on Horseback is a vivid contrast with the other expressionistic play on the boards, Processional, is far superior in the quality and clarity of its imagery...
Your magazine has the merit (to me) of being impressionistic and vivid. . . . Paucity and eclecticism of detail and connective render it eminently readable...