Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Violinist Erika Morini who nine years ago at the age of 15, made a debut memorable for rare technique, vigorous emotion. For three years Morini toured the U. S. successfully, then retired to her home in Vienna. Last week after six years she returned?mop of black hair, vivid green dress?and despite her acrobatic tactics impressed a Manhattan audience with her increased poise, understanding...
...thinks it may be an immense frozen continent, 30,000 mi. long, 7,000 mi. wide. Other astronomers have seen these spots before, have not been able to find out what they were because they did not possess strong enough telescopes to study them. Just before the War a vivid spot was noted, was interpreted by the superstitious as a sign of bloodshed. Sometimes the patches remain motionless for months, at other times they appear to be rolling about, chasing one another over Jupiter's surface. Why they act in this way has never been determined...
...outstanding characteristics of the Bromfield novels is distinctiveness from other novels. His characters are not found elsewhere and all share a Bromfield flavor of realism, and his style is so vivid that hundreds of persons are late to dinner on account...
...Swedish Match Co. expires December 31, 1930." No surprise was this statement for in December 1928, Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints it may make more under favorable conditions. Herr Kreuger in his annual report spoke of planning to make, matches in the U. S. Yet no definite move...
High in a Manhattan office building last week a tall, white-haired man proudly thumbed three dummy paperbacked books. Vivid covers proclaimed them Vol. I, No. 1 of Swift Story Magazine (It Fits Your Pocket), The Pocket Magazine and The Dime Novel. First of the three was ready for publication this week. But it was The Dime Novel, scheduled to appear next month, which brought a reflective smile to the white-haired man-William Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), author of the famed old time Frank Merriwell series, now venturing for the first time as his own publisher...