Word: enlivenment
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...been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service, the question of his competence would have been decided before he embarked upon a revolutionary prison policy, whose success demands continuity of direction and stability of personnel. And an increase in attractive non-political positions could not fail to enliven a civil service which is now cut off from the higher rungs by the dominance of patronage as an appointment policy...
Spleen. To enliven its conventions, the A. F. of L. does not put on Zouave parades or ladies' auxiliary bridge tournaments. It invites some foreign Laborite to give a good hell-raising address against some common foe. This year the guest was James Rowan, member of the general council of the British Trade Union Congress. His subject was Adolf Hitler. Said...
...Carroll, the star, overacts in her usual manner. She kills a lover, and goes on a three day cruise with her husband-to-be, played by Cary Grant. Naturally, everything comes out all right, and the train of love drags weightily throughout the performance. Irving Pichell and John Halliday enliven the rendition with excellent acting...
Charles W. ("Speed") Holman, famed speed and stunt pilot, winner of many an air derby, flew into Omaha for the air races last week. He voluntered to "put on a few stunts" to enliven the afternoon's program. After taking much of the crowd's breath with routine acrobatics, he put his fast Laird biplane into a 2,000-ft. power dive, rolling it over on its back. As plane & pilot flashed low over the grandstands, spectators saw Holman hanging head down by a precarious knee-hold, clutching desperately for the controls. He did not reach them...
...other attractions on the bill enliven with a modicum of success a programme that just misses being out and out dull...