Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want to do the same thing again. Too much washing is not good for antiques...
...bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
...Band Explodes. Next morning the Banco de Bilbao opened to a horrendous racket from above. The gypsies played with gusto. Don Francisco's maid screeched flamencos and his dog howled. Over & over again the musicians rendered such popular ditties as The Cowbell Song...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...
...significant. He remembers it fondly, sometimes signs his name Tom (Missouri) Eliot, and likes to sing U.S. folk ballads, though he has a hard time staying on key. But he does not seem to understand America (although he comes to the U.S. on frequent visits), shrinks from its materialistic gusto...