Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starts in as a boy; continues through a period of heavy drinking, sexual misbehavior, hard thinking, unsuccessful marrying, and a distasteful attempt at the law: finally finds himself as a poet. The book aims high. Whether it is uniformly successful is open to question. It is, at all events, vivid, powerful-and outspoken...
...ghetto, marries a highly refined settlement worker. After a stormy interval she finds him insufficiently passionate and turns to one of her own race. The world as she sees it is the theme of the book. The author knows her subject at first hand and makes it surpassingly vivid...
...child. With him may be Ruth Hale, his wife, whom Mrs. Atherton has quite definitely marked in her novel as the lady of the Lucy Stone League who refuses to visit Europe because her passport must bear the dreaded brand "Mrs. Heywood Broun." Ruth Hale is slim, dark, vivid, eager. She writes moving picture criticisms and book reviews. She has a cleverness very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table...
...aside Washington's birthday as an annual day when its alumni return to New Haven and renew their acquaintance with their university. Through a program of speeches by faculty and undergraduates, athletic events, and still other entertainments, the life of the college is presented to the alumnus in vivid and concentrated form. In one day he can restore his memory of "bright college years", discover what changes and developments have occurred, and learn first-hand about the present-day needs of the college...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...