Word: perk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this makes for much rough talk and romantic warbling, with which Donnybrook! at its best has little to do. Matters perk up when a pub-owning widow (Su san Johnson) sings a lament for a spouse she could not lament less; matters tinkle prettily when the wedding guests toast the bride. Matters are brightest of all by way of Eddie Foy's flings and flashbacks into American vaudeville. When Foy dances on his knees, or his feet seem caught in twisted yarn, or he just sidles off from Ireland and the show, he provides literal footnotes to a great...
...careful to point out that the cut was not being applied to offset any business recession, as cuts usually have been in the past. Instead, said the Fed, it is meant to perk up the economy at a time when business is steady. It is also true that a growing number of economists and businessmen have complained that the tight-money policy was going too far, and squeezing off the normal growth of the nation...
...quite therapeutic too. You should see our patients perk up and cry, "It's Madison time!" whenever the tune is heard on the radio...
...what Dear Liar suffers from is less Shaw as lover than Shaw as letter writer, a role in which he falls far short of the dramatist. Things perk up when the stars can get their teeth into something theatrical rather than into each other, as when they go over a scene from Pygmalion. But the stars are not quite wedded to their parts. Unfailingly gracious, Actress Cornell seems too gentle and Actor Aherne seems somehow too jaunty...
...Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row-and by the way, the girl is innocent." Against such amateurs, an old newspaper pro could only look good-and Hearstling Dorothy Kilgallen is a bona fide professional. Rushed to Los Angeles to perk up the Hearst chain's coverage of the Finch-Tregoff trial. Reporter Kilgallen ranged far and wide, occasionally clucking faint disapproval of Carole Tregoff ("No one taking a long look at her would doubt that she was more interested in men than sculpture, soccer or Scrabble"), aseptical-y criticizing...