Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their return from Europe, Charles and Kathleen Norris spent some weeks in Manhattan before seeking their California ranch life. This highly literary family is always interesting; for both Mr. Norris and his wife are vivid, keen-minded, hospitable...
...author can make things happen, as the intense reality of the sordid Mr. Schreiner's call at the Kemper-Merritt's palacial home, and the dramatic accusation against Patty for cheating at bridge show, but is as a descriptive artist that he excels. His amazingly vivid and never trite phrasing makes the reader actually see the characters; his carefully constructed and cleverly told hits of action hold the reader with their nicety; and best of all, his delicacy keeps him within the bounds of decency, however immortal his theme may be. "The Gay Ones" is simply yet very well written...
Welded. Eugene O'Neill takes matrimony drastically between thumb and forefinger and turns it over for inspection, shaking it rather roughly. He finds a union between two vivid temperaments to be unsuccessful. He concludes that, in the process of fusing, these two personalities are liable to flare up into a white hot flame that may consume them both...
Here nature's lines and pigments, guarded and moulded by tender hands of many gardeners, paint the halls in contrasting colors, now gorgeous and vivid, now subtle and evasive. The full-blown ripeness of the rose, the sturdy primness of the sweet pea are ranged in harmonious array, mingling the emotions of night and scent in one silent pean to the advent of Spring...
...drummer-boy at twelve on the battlefield of Shiloh, Honore Willsie Morrow has led a life that has been a consistent development toward the goal which she has sought. Her childhood was spent in the West and it is of the West that she has written. Her stories are vivid, decisive tales of plain and hill. They are filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself, is tall, dark, a person of rare dignity and poise and of no pretentious. For five years...