Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inflicted with Gusto. When he returned to music in 1923, it was to conduct the London Symphony and eventually to organize what was to become one of the world's great orchestras-the London Philharmonic. After that, his international reputation grew rapidly. Sir Thomas earned his title for his services to the government as an unofficial good-will ambassador (he gave concert-dinners for important Italian politicians, was credited with helping keep Italy on the side of the Allies in World War I). His manner of spreading good will, however, was sometimes open to question. In Australia, he kept...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, with gusto...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, with gusto...
Advise and Consent. Equipped with an all-but-complete set of political chessmen, the shallow but suspenseful Broadway adaptation of the bestselling novel pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto...
Being equipped with an all but complete set of political chessmen, Advise and Consent pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto, keeps crying Check! with particular relish, and in the course of the evening makes almost every known move on the board. Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts. The nose puncher swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years...