Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...audience which considerably overflowed the seating capacity of Sanders Theatre last night was a marked compliment to the distinguished scholar and historian who addressed it. The lecture of the evening was an intellingent, scholarly, and extremely interesting survey of the early Western campaign and brought into relief in a vivid, instructive, though necessarily brief fashion, the personalities of the principal military leaders on both sides. Dr. Fiske held the close attention of his hearers to the end, and all who were present will await with great interest the subsequent lecutures...
Messrs. Stone and Kimball are about to publish a collection of short stories by H. B. Marriot Watson, under the title of "Galloping Dick, the Adventures of Richard Ryder, sometimes Gentleman of the Road." Several of the stories have already appeared in the Chap Book. As vivid pictures from the career of a highwayman of the last century, and as stories, they are excellent...
...Waxing of Sadness" by Elmer E. Southard is an extremely strong bit of writing. The style is vivid and original, and the words are chosen with a careful attention for their worth both in euphony and suggestiveness...
...acknowledge the receipt at this office of "Forbes of Harvard," a sketch by Elbert Hubbard. It is a vivid story of college life in the early fifties told by a series of letters that are supposed to have passed between Mr. Arthur R. Forbes and his mother, sweetheart and chum. Incidentally others take a hand in the correspondence. The story is replete with the play of fancy, wit and epigram, and enough philosophy to give it ballast...
...Chronica of Fr. Salimbene, mainly written in 1284, gives a most vivid, naive and picturesque image of the conditions of Northern Italy...