Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy enemies and darlings alike surround her, each one scheming deliciously to control her feminine humors...
Among leading English physicians the opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly...
...news that's fit to print" was ever a satisfactory program for Joseph Pulitzer, vivid genius of latter-day U. S. journalism. He insisted that a newspaper must be not only a compendium of affairs but also a champion of ideals; and it was that theory which made his Post-Dispatch, founded 50 years ago in St. Louis, an astonishing success...
...land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest pf villagers, the prophecies of Hebrew elders, the affection of restive German soldiers, the championship of officers, the pique of a Prussian super-official...
...attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...