Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip Scores. Trooping the Color was the week's most glittery event, but there were others, now that mourning was over. Elizabeth had cocktails at the Guards' officers mess; Philip captained his team (Cowdray Park) at polo. Brandishing his polo stick with right royal gusto, His Royal Highness clouted the opposing captain, a U.S. newsman, across the knuckles, broke two fingers. Princely apologies helped, but the victim was rushed to a hospital...
...Vivacious Cancan. Monteux was not the man for solemn speeches or long faces. His 96 musicians gave him a party at which the eleven women of the orchestra put on a vivacious cancan. Cracked Monteux, "It took me 17 years to see what pretty legs they have." With enormous gusto, he knifed into a huge cake lettered "Au revoir, cher Maître." And he set straight one matter that has intrigued San Franciscans for years: "I make you a declaration. My hair, it is not dyed...
These misadventures, handled with fine flair and gusto by Author Ellison, end the boy's college career. Kicking him out for irresponsible conduct, the president admits that, to get where he is, he himself had "to act the nigger." He hands out some advice for the road: "You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity -you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence...
...Betty Mutton and her U.S.O. troupe. Wearing a duckbill cap and a snug winter jacket, Betty joined the boys in the mess hall where a photographer caught a rare shot of her mobile face in repose. Later, she sang and danced for her hamburger supper with the usual Hutton gusto...
Between Sittings, Jo Davidson's autobiography, is just like his sculpture. Short on profundity, it glows with gusto and innocence. Those who come to it for dazzling impressions of people and places will find nothing but what they already know, e.g., that Israel is "the birthplace of our civilization," that Gandhi looked like "a holy man," that Will Rogers specialized in "nuggets of wisdom." Luckily, the bulk of Between Sittings is not about what Jo thought and did between sittings, at all. It is about the hell of a life he led cooping pawky big shots into a corner...