Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States potentially neutral--may choose between two courses in the event of a European war. It may, in the vivid phrase of Frank Simonds, "wage neutrality"--that is, insist on maintaing to the utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection...
...ones, the mottled brown diamond backs that were everywhere, among the rocks, on the glaring open salt fiats, in the sage country. I shudder to think, of those ugly reptiles coiled and ratting, ready to strike venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump...
...fine painting of two ladies in hoop skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators...
...fans to the box-office it can hardly be said to add to the strength of the picture. The famous events in the history are told with dramatic force which make the Black Hole and the Battle of Plassey step out of the cold of black and white into vivid animation...
...white for All Saints' Day, red for Whitsunday-or they may be a memorial. . . . For instance, one Sunday the flowers at the Church of the Ascension were given in memory of a warrior son lost on the field of battle. Glorious spears of gladiolus were selected in a vivid, singing red-a most triumphant note all through the worship, that...