Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the writer was manager of a credit investigating firm whose reporters oftentimes, particularly on rainy days and after bad nights, would investigate their cases in the lobby of some convenient hotel where their vivid imaginations would have free play...
...vivid contrast, Freshman David Mitchell of Kentucky, and Harvard, blasted all precious records by devouring 18 successive ice creams after a full meal at the Union. This is indeed a sad commentary on the amount of food in one of the Union's "full course evening meals." --The Yale News...
...Yours for more vivid descriptions but less motors on Douglas planes...
...expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers off to her bed, finds the maid has packed everything for her departure...
...studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois and a swirling composition called Stampeding Bulls by Jon Corbino...