Word: gusto
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Gustin conducted his campaign with customary gusto. The proposed charter, like everything Bonfils and Gustin had opposed in the old days, was "absurd, ridiculous, asinine, idiotic, and doesn't make sense." Gustin ignored Post editorials across the page. Post editorials ignored Gustin-except once, when a political advertisement quoted from a Gustin column. Then the Post once more warned readers that Gustin spoke only for Gustin. But the paper made no attempt to edit or censor Gustin's columns. Acknowledged Gustin: "A remarkable demonstration of broadmindedness...
This is a collection of engaging and often touching chronicles of crime in an age (1660-1800) when a petty theft could send an Englishman to the gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables...
Braden's insistence that Argentina fulfill the last letter of her anti-Nazi commitments was paralyzing State's Latin American division. Messersmith had attacked his job of smoothing U.S.-Argentine relations with such gusto that he was beginning to look like an apologist for President Juan...
...also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
...salon next door, a saxophone quartet from the Garde Rápublicaine, reinforced by a violin and a harp, played throughout the meal (sometimes with so much gusto that an attendant had to quiet them down). The consomme was accompanied by some airily impressionistic Debussy, the timbale by a new composition entitled Song of the Lost Spring. Just then, the springy weather outside gave way to a violent snowstorm, which remained over Paris until Marshall's departure for Berlin next...