Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Criminal Quartet from the Cambridge Backs, composed of three male voices, and a tenor, will burst into bellicose balladry for their first appearance upon any stage. A battery of piano-accordions will discharge in a newly-composed Kinder-symphonie, for the last time upon any stage. A variety of vivid divertissements by several stellar scintillants, recruited from the ranks of Dunster democrats, will bolster the bill...
These are the vivid, romping, everyday children, our own and our neighbors' with all their strongly marked differences-and the more differences the better. The more they charge us with their separate problems the more we know they are vitally and humanly alive. From what we know of foreign countries, I am convinced that we have a right to assume that we have a larger proportion of happy, normal children than any other country in the world. And also, on the bright side . . . we have 1,500,000 specially gifted children. There lies the future leadership of the Nation...
...Vagabond cannot forget the balmy weather of Saturday afternoon in New Haven, and retains vivid memories of peering through doors and windows into the semi-darkness of Harkness Hall, with the eager curiosity of the unknown and uninvited. He realizes, however, that winter must be at hand, now that the five or six miles of board walks have been set in place all over the Yard. And tonight, he is planning to visit Emerson F, Where, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Liberal and Socialist Clubs, Robert Morss Lovett '92 is to discuss police, politics, press...
...last exhibition were Manhattan skyscrapers and views of a Maine coast familiar to Marinites. New were the pictures of New Mexico, vivid snapshots of pueblos, mountains, Indian dances, made during a summer visit to Taos...
...went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover [where the hunters follow on foot, armed only with...