Word: gusto
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...these happy circumstances delegates voted freely. After jockeying about with old-fashioned gusto, the convention picked not Smith, but tall, stooped A. Willis Robertson, 59, a Congressman for 13 years, a member of the Ways & Means Committee for ten years. Virginians recognized Robertson's own special qualities: he is an expert on wild life, a conservative lawyer, a believer in economy...
...With the gusto that made him the pre-presidential darling of Argentina's underprivileged, Juan Domingo Perón last week tore into the battle against inflation. "Either the cost of living is lowered or wages will be raised," said he, with an assurance that few economists could conjure...
...white polka dots, he had shed all his clownishness. He made no attempt to save his neck, again & again gluttonously claimed responsibility: "I am responsible for German rearmament. . . . I always wanted bombers for bombing the U.S. . . . I personally gave the orders to bomb Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry." With furious gusto, he shifted blame from fellow defendants to himself. He spoke with unvarying respect of Adolf Hitler, cried: "I do not propose in any way to hide behind the Führer...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
Rudy Vallee, the Vagabond Lover, was singing the Stein Song With Yale-boy gusto. America's other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...