Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rudolf Forster, an Austrian, makes his accent sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
...Schwartz, Governor Miller and Wyoming's one Representative, Paul R. Greever, who had all been invited aboard, were on hand. So was Senator O'Mahoney, uninvited but a member of a Citizens' Welcoming Committee. The joke appeared to be on Franklin Roosevelt. Said the President with gusto: "Hello, Joe! Glad...
...seem Miss Dunn, a carnival singer, spends two weeks with Scott when her circus wagon burns and marries him. At the moment of this marriage, an oil well suddenly sponts with gusto on Scott tries to run a pipe line to the refinery nearby but encounters labor difficulties since the time given by the refinery for the construction of the line is too short to suit the workmen. When most of his men have walked out hard guys employed by a railroad trying to gain control of the well start to tear up that portion of the line already laid...
...years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There is no chance of my changing my mind." However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent the Hon. Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn flying so suddenly south was cured, he rejoiced with gusto that he had never, even in his most discouraged hours, resigned as Premier of Ontario and with whoops of redoubled vigor tore back to Toronto...
...Addicts. At his famed colony of chimpanzees in Florida, Psychologist Robert Yerkes of Yale proved that other animals besides man could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking...