Word: fizz
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...looked around I was the biggest boy in the class. I could run faster, jump higher, dive better than almost any body, and all the girls wanted to feel my muscles." His sense of relief was so terrific that it became a kind of constitutional euphoria, a lifelong fizz of high spirits...
...unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...
...Another fellow said, 'Don't worry; they always fizz before they explode.' " At Ike's special invitation, Zhukov came to lunch alone except for his interpreter...
...child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages of 19 and 35, the imagination is most active." Whitehead told Price, "and we mostly keep going thereafter on whatever 'fizz' we have experienced then...
...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...