Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elusive "third dimension" for which producers have been experimenting so eagerly, but which is simply a big screen. Some of the sequences in which John Mack Brown drawls through the role of Billy are effective, many of them are absurd, and in general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where...
...ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine gun crew ripped off belts of blank cartridges with such gusto that it was only after being surrounded by a squad of "enemy" soldiers and rebuked by several staff officers that they would take off their steel helmets, play dead...
...Iowa last week Congressman Lester Jesse Dickinson and Governor John Hammill rounded out their primary campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination with all the customary political gusto of the Midwest. Congressman Dickinson ''stood on his record," proclaimed this week's vote "a referendum on President Hoover," extolled the pending tariff bill. Governor Hammill also "stood on his record," insisted President Hoover was no issue in Iowa, denounced the tariff bill...
...France as a baby, grew up and was educated in Paris. She is unmarried, in her 30's. Unlike her younger brother Julian, who writes of the French, in French, with grim French realism, Author Anne Green has needed no translator, is no very grisly realist, has gusto, gayety, humor...
...Cavalieri married Tenor Lucien Muratore. Artist Bob erupted in a flood of murals. He designed stained glass windows, painted screens, covered the walls of tycoons' swimming pools and conservatories with a profusion of birds and beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round...