Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head. But Practical-Joker Jensen had not killed the children, who are alive, well...
...creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...
Last week the reading began. All day long the readers worked. Evenings they talked over papers, swapped "boners" with academic gusto. A biology marker found this...