Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of Queen Mary, Dr. Walter Button told an audience in University College of London University that Scots would drink the health of their future monarch with "far greater gusto" if he were known as the "Prince of Scotland and Wales." The Doctor said that the eldest son of the Kings of Scotland had been known as the Prince of Scotland since 1400, the title being assumed by right of birth, whereas the title of Prince of Wales was specially created (1301). The Queen smiled appreciatively...
None of the candidates wiped his feet on the doormat of New Year's Eve, with more gusto than William G. McAdoo. The old jingle made on him four years ago still rings with startling poignancy...
...contributors, in the manner of many periodicals. I found myself unconsciously turning to the end of the present number to discover something concerning Mr. J. N. Leonard, the author of "Derga Fer Rogan". This fantasy, a felicitous combination of wit, satire, and poetic imagination, all compounded with gusto, is one of the best pieces of work I have read in some time. It is, of course, uneven; there are occasional lapses into--well, no, not cheapness, but cleverness. On the whole, however, it is brilliant without being flashy...
Heywood Broun: " Got off with gusto but could not hold the pace...
...professor in jack boots bracing himself waist deep against the current of a mountain stream and playing a trout with the gusto and skill of a true sportsman seems a most amazing disruption of the proprieties. Scarcely less startling is the discovery of a member of the faculty deep in a thrilling murder story or a scholar of the classics telling after-dinner stories at which the listener cannot help laughing...