Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the shop, on shelves as green and spruce as a housewife's kitchen cabinet, gleamed all sorts of whiskies, gins, ports, sherries, liqueurs-some labeled "non-alcoholic," others with standard booze labels -all offered by the genial clerk with gusto...
...good looking men that girls of a decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good...