Word: enlivenment
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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...
Three generations later Annabelle appears as the descendant of the gypsy princess and proceeds to enliven the plot with her own liaisons with the Irish family. Henry Fonda, owner and trainer of Destiny Bay, candidate for the Derby, co-stars with Annabelle who also possesses a promising horse. Wings of the Morning. From this point the story itself is partially lost amid these attractions of Annabelle's personality and the beauties of the Irish countryside which are set off to great advantage in technicolor...
Though the social side makes a strong appeal to the men who engage in House plays, perhaps the spontaneity which enliven the productions is most to be admired. When Lowell presented "The Beggar's Opera" several years ago, the audience was resigned beforehand to a poor attempt at a difficult play. Yet so good were the acting and singing that, in spite of themselves, the spectators laughed with the actors. The excellence of the performance was not due, by any means, to the experience of the players, but to their desire for self-entertainment, which is the essence of these...
Occasionally the opposite happened as when a science editor tried to out argue someone who was explaining a paper that he had spent a good part of his life studying. Often offhand remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered...