Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring that a new church based upon faith, poverty, persecution and meekness is arising in Europe. Dr. Keller said: "We may see the end of Christianity and the church as it exists today in the face of [Nazi and Communist...
...military title from years of army service, mostly among the Indians. To knowing the American Indian through & through McCoy owed his introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns and operates a 10,000-acre cattle ranch...
...paintings seem more native to the "brown decades" in the U.S. than the paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death...
Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining picture. A tale of the Chicago in the roaring seventies, it is generously sprinkled with songs by the delectable Alice Faye and fist fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power; and with the great fire as a brilliant climax, Hollywood's latest excursion into the realm of spectacular catastrophe proves a great success...
...vivid autobiography, published last week, proved that he could write even better on at least two other themes-his physical strength and his poetic talent. His muscle he traces to his pioneer ancestors, all over six feet, feudists, boozers, moonshiners, hard workers, preachers. Biggest and lustiest of these was Grandfather Mitch Stuart, who fought for the North because the Union recruiting station was nearer, who narrowly escaped hanging by his own men for killing a fellow soldier, fathered 19 children by two wives, died violently by ambush when he was past 80. As an old man, Grandpa Stuart scandalized...