Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain insistent springiness of motion, an excellent lover. Mr. C. S. Howard's otherwise admirable Marquis of Torrelodones is marred somewhat by an irritating resemblance to Sam Bernard. This could easily be remedied. Mr. Leonard Ware '21 looks the Toreador to a T. enriching the precession and giving it vivid authenticity. Mr. F. C. Packard '20 is one waiter in a thousand; and Mr. Cyril McNear '20 makes a handsome idler...
...houses, the multi-colored awnings, everything combines to convey an impression of languor and drowsiness which is essentially Spanish. The keynote of the play is struck by the admirable choice of colors, pinks and yellows predominating. Bright tiling is much in evidence, the squares being made up of vivid reds, blues, yellows, and blacks. The result is striking but at the same time one wonders how so many strong colors could have been used and yet have the general effect so uniformly soft...
...have here another vivid example of the harm done, when the League of Nations was abandoned by the United States. The tribunal derived its greatest power from the might of moral right. How could it fail to lose prestige when its chief exponent deserted it for avowedly materialistic, selfish reasons? But we shall some day learn our lesson, when we come to realize that whatever affects the world peace affects us. May we never have to learn this again by being dragged into a world-war! But find it out, we will. Then, in spite of our Lodges and Borahs...
...grasp your great or caustic truths. We are dangerously equipped to inform those who follow us, and we look to you and others, as Barbusse, to aid us. That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack in October, 1917. All this we must learn over here, and so I would express to you that the strength of your conviction is going far, very far. WILLIAM O. P. MORGAN...