Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verities are slighted. I can agree with him to the extent of saying that the same charge might be made against a great deal of fiction. That this fact alters the value of the story, as a story, seems very doubtful. Miss Lincoln has told it well, with restrained gusto, with great humor and kindly understanding. For this she deserves to be read...
Carefully guarding the secret of exactly how much grain Russia has raised, a secret worth money to grain speculators such as the Soviet Government. Premier Molotov declared with gusto: "One billion five hundred million bushels of grain will be at the disposal of the people. . . . Our reserves are enormous. . . . Ten thousand new bread shops will be opened before April 1. ... In 1928, when bread rationing began, there were 123,000 State and cooperative stores. Today there...
...show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were Grade A. Particularly objectionable to first nighters was the "baby talk" of one girl performer (Loretta Clemens...
...creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today...
...their chief relaxation the two old campaigners stopped at the Battlefield of Sakarya and General Kemal explained with gusto how he beat the Greeks in 1921. So close grew the confab of host and guest at this point that Turkish and Persian journalists reported ecstatically afterward: "They have become real friends, personal friends and brothers!" At Smyrna, to his grave delight, the King of Kings received personal command of some Turkish troops who pitched under his orders into an exciting sham battle with airplanes raining "boom bombs...