Word: enlivening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...childhood, and the maturer, but more exquisite delights of our own hearth-sides, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, and all the loved objects of the family group renew, at the festive board, the vows of affection, exchange kind greetings, and revive recollections of the past to enliven the present; while the pilgrimage of life is brightened and sweetened by innocent amusements and healthful recreations, and a sense of obligation to the Giver of all good is implanted more deeply in the heart, sanctifying our trials and enhancing our blessings by a consciousness of the presence and protection...
...classes are held nightly, a clamor for more is being voiced. Vocational subjects attract the majority of students and most of them are learning skilled trades which will be of inestimable value to them when they leave the CCC. Informal activities such as photography, glee club and amateur radio enliven the educational program...
...first time in a decade a re-adoption of creed, a pillar on which to suspend the machinery of P. B. H., a reaffirmation of the idealism that must in the end enliven an organization founded in memory of Bishop Brooks--these have been placed on paper. Thus a recent growth of activity in Harvard's charitable institution has been climaxed; with the constitution the denouement should be effective and long...
Thereafter the Marines busy themselves with little but tap dance routines arranged by fanciful Busby Berkeley. Never at sea, they cleverly oblige dance-hall patrons by performing "right, dress!" and "squads-right" in full Marine regalia. The Marines otherwise enliven Shanghai night life by their efforts to set up their own night club, are recalled to duty only in a final musical number. Songs: 'Cause My Baby Says It's So, The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed, The Song of the Marines...
...acts before going off fishing last week was to name a crew of Senators to conduct, with colleagues from the House, the great fishing expedition called for by President Roosevelt in his message about millionaire tax-evaders (TIME, June 14). That this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only...