Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberately spread and documented by the Chinese Reds themselves. The Communist papers are at their gleeful best in reporting mass killings of "counter-revolutionaries." The present propaganda line attempts to scare peasants into submission, and so the Red journalist dwells on the gory details with all the morbid gusto of a tabloid reporter on a chorus girl murder...
...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...
...actresses who seem to have captured the frothy spirit are Joanne Gilbert as the mischievous Puck and Martha Eyre in the minor role of Pease blossom. Connaught O'Connell is captivating as Helena, and whether pursuing or being pursued by various Athenians, she acts with equal gusto...
...coincidence, either, that Nancy Walker seems to be onstage when most of the delightful putting much gusto into her acting as the roaring girl, she still manages to extract a good deal of humor from her material. It is not Restoration wit that gets the laughs when she is on; it is Nancy Walker, pure and simple. She wipes her nose with her sleeve and makes love to a cello with a savage determination that is generally both frightening and funny...
...spectacle of eight mustachioed Beefeaters singing through their mutton-chops ought to be enough to warm the cockles of anybody's heart. The Winthrop House production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Yeomen of the Guard" has that and more. It has principals who act and sing with gusto. It may not be the D'Oyly Carte company in the Junior Common Room, but it is a thoroughly delightful group...