Word: liven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry a stage-&-radio show to the camps and navy bases of Britain, the innovators of the now standard practice of inviting servicemen to step up from the audience and broadcast "Hello, Mums!" In the opinion of many an American in Britain, they were also the first to liven...
...been produced and directed in true motion picture style, even down to the final clinch--with the right man. Brilliant color was splashed across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...
William Mendrek mugs his way into a pretty respectable rendition of a drunken newspaper editor, but Robert Perry is unconvincing as the male lead. A few catchy lines help to liven up the show, but they are too rare to compensate wholly for a comparatively poor plot and rather poor acting...
...story went that the famous Nannie, recently made an honorary editor of the "Advocate," would be here for the game, and would liven up the magazine's brawl after the fray. In fact, the report was so persistent that a young man, not more than 10 years old, waited for over two hours outside of the "Advocate's" offices on Mount Auburn Street on the chance of getting a look at the famous profile...
Consensus was that new Editor Barrington-Ward would liven up the editorial page, might even print news instead of ads on the front page, that his new first assistant, blue-eyed, white-haired W. F. Casey, will have a chance to write editorials for readers under 40. The Times has lately plumped for social and economic reforms, exorcised the Red bogey, almost earned title to "Thunderer on the Left...