Word: enlivens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...
Hemispheric Cooperation: To enliven the routine task of a Washington news photographer covering the wedding of Lieut. Francisco Castillo Najera, son of the Mexican Ambassador, and Seńorita Alicia Calvillo of Mexico City, the groom swept his bride off her feet, staged a rare tableau of best-dressed romance (see cut). Animal Fair: Some 2,000 dogs which will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting...
...crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...
There have been irritations, and there will doubtless be more. Clashes on high policy and procedure often enliven staff conferences, cause many a private cussing bee. U.S. pilots and crews, training with British units, find unaccustomed formalities and shibboleths in R.A.F. mess life, and sometimes they offend British sensibilities. At every stage of air operation, from training to combat, the R.A.F. and the Army Air Forces think and act differently. Now, within the tight confines of Britain, all these differences must be fitted into one operational pattern...
...mere repetition, since each Dracula is sinister in his own chilly way. You can hear were-wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness, and feminine screams also serve to enliven the evening. The central character is the sinister, putty-faced Count Dracula, an evil combination of Superman and Batman...