Word: liven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. He bought an 18-room house, built along the lines of a moderate-sized hotel, on St. Louis' private, exclusive Portland Place, where he still lives. For a time, the Bungles formula seemed surefire: there was a good deal of POW, SOCK and WHAM to liven the adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually got too painful for the readers. The strip's newspaper clients dropped to 70 in 1942. Cartoonist Tuthill...
...broadcasters, aboil with plans last week, hoped to do more than explain, in down-to-earth terms, exactly what goes on. Consciously steering clear of a "carnival atmosphere," they intended, all the same, to liven the conference...
During his quarter-century reign, the rambling wrecks of Georgia Tech won 135 games, lost 95, tied eight, played in five Bowl games, and piled up enough anecdotes to liven the Alex legend for years to come. Sample stories...
...Harvard squad's schedule is considerably limited this spring, but a few innovations will liven up the program. Two cross-country meets, hitherto strictly an autumn diversion, will be on the card. These hill-and-dale affairs are scheduled for March 27 and April 3, both against Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern...
...liven things up, she decides to summon from Philadelphia the family's favorite relative, tall, handsome Uncle Charlie (Joseph Gotten). But Uncle Charlie, for reasons of his own, is already on the way. He arrives with a large, comfortable halo of presents, money and avuncular good humor. The rest of the family lionizes Uncle. The girl begins to feel a sense of menace...