Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall. The star goes for Karl. The playwright goes for Sieglinde. With their attentions fast on their new inamoratas, the professional couple toss each other about, stand on chairs and pianos, recline on couches while giving an impromptu rehearsal of their new vehicle...
...reports having been shot at only once, and that time the gun jammed. He had lots of fun with his job. At one German beer-garden, masquerading as a reveler, he made so much noise he was asked to sing a solo, which he did with great gusto. Then he announced: "This concludes the evening's entertainment, ladies & gentlemen. The place is pinched. For I am Izzy Einstein, the Prohibition Agent...
...winners, 143 seconds. He has won only twelve important stakes this season, to Mills's 18, but Coucci's twelve were worth more money, $166,095 to $86,017. He won the American Derby and the Arlington Park Classic, both on Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, and the Spinaway Stakes with Easy Day. Jockey Coucci, more than Mills, is noted for spectacular finishes. Sometimes they are too spectacular, like one last fortnight which caused Laurel, Md. officials to suspend him for "taking a tow"-grabbing the saddlecloth of a horse going past him. Last week Jockey Coucci...
...recent years. Fortnight ago before bald James Monroe Hewlett sailed to take up his duties as Director of the American Academy in Rome he announced that teaching students to copy classic remains was "not the Academy's idea at all" (TIME, Sept. 26). This statement was hailed with gusto by hawser-lipped Walter Pach. He announced that that was just what he was going to do at the Art Students' League, hold a course in Tradition which will teach art students how to look at Old Masters, insulating them at the same time from imitation...
...glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...