Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains of British Columbia. To show you that it is a real outdoor drama with lots of tough men in it, there are some emasculated versions of section gang argot, and an infinite amount of the players barking at each other. There is about the picture a certain inevitable gusto which attaches to any treatment of this sort of material, some genuinely thrilling mountain shots, and a plethora of weak women, outdoor men, and open spaces. Nonetheless, we were glad to come out into the real sunshine
...toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja a likely audience of foreigners, and with gusto he let himself go about the Italians: "Are these the men on whom the countries which wish to in flame the world must rely? Then I say to the Democratic countries: 'Awake! Do not fear these armies of tin soldiers which try to strike fear into the hearts...
...sort make good newspaper copy. Simpleton winners make even better copy. Last week in New York, which was obviously the place most concerned about Ireland's Sweepstakes and England's horse race, the doings of Sweepstakes winners were recorded by the press with diligence and gusto, as were the doings of British Sidney Freeman of the London bookmakers firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd. ("Duggie"), who visits the U. S. three times a year, achieves a neat profit for his firm by buying an interest in potentially valuable sweepstakes tickets before the race...
...only ones to rejoice that Dr. Kilpatrick is given a fresh mount from which to tilt at his foes. With John Dewey and George Counts he is one of the "three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with which schools tend to sit back and survey...
...case with Celine's book and Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the obscenity of Lawrence's report has no Rabelaisian gusto to make it bearable or give it meaning: it is monotonous, mechanical, uninspired and gross, a neurotic explosion of disgust rather than an uninhibited outbreak of masculine high spirits...