Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcely the time for university alumni, who are frequently termed the leaders of the common wealth, to set a general example of unrestrained conviviality in regard to the prohibition laws. It is quite possible, though perhaps hardly charitable, to suppose that had the Columbia committee not retained vivid recollections of the Butler incident. Its letter might never have seen the light; but even so, whatever the cause, the fact that such an appeal has appeared is distinctly an encouraging symptom...
...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...
Friday afternoons, when school-boys and girls wiped off their slates and listened to faltering eulogies on Washington and Lincoln, are still vivid memories to many of the present generation; but the golden traditions which were then pleasantly learned have withstood the ravages of time little better than the familiar red schoolhouse. Modern historians have scorned to repeat the charming stories of Pocahontas rescue and the cherry tree incident, and have instead dug up English graveyards to find the skeleton of the Indian girl and searched through old jockets to discover whether or not Washington's hair was really...
...Author. William McFee is a stocky man, blond, with vivid sea-blue eyes. Son of a British sea-captain, he was born, in 1881, in a three-masted square-rigger, Erin's Isle, homeward bound from India. Educated in English schools, a prodigious reader, he found the lure of the sea was in his blood. So at 24 he qualified as Engineer and ever since has cruised about. Most of his writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams...
COBRA-A play exposing in vivid spurts the chills and fever of sex life...