Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy season for Washington valets, ladies' maids, society reporters and the President of the U. S. opened last week. With the Cabinet Dinner and the Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans...
...childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted it &the most original book of 1936.& Its originality was its oldtime local color, particularly in its vivid reminder of Mother's cooking on the farm. And it sold over 30,000 copies...
...politically as well as morally. But they are outrages first of all because they offend normal human feeling; it takes pathological terms to describe the men who can dictate such acts, as well as the man whose "healthy" instincts thrive on committing them. If we bring ourselves to any vivid realization of them they become unbearable...
...committee, Mr. Willkie gave a vivid picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that...
...Jacobins, by C. L. R. James (Dial Press, $3.75), is an impassioned account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Santo Domingo revolution, written from the Marxist point of view by a young British Negro. It bristles with harrowing atrocities, fiery denunciations of imperialism, but manages to give a vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U. S. history before the Civil...