Word: gusto
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...last men left alive who during the last century pursued the largest of God's creatures over the bounding main in an oversize peapod, and did him in with a spike on the end of a pole. His memoir of those derring days, told with salty gusto, is sure to be one of the last authentic additions to the thrilling literature of old-fashioned whaling...
...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...