Word: gusto
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...these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama, almost everything the old soak does smacks...
Henry L Mencken, now 65 ("an obscene age"), but lacking none of his long time gusto for word-slinging, zipped a few to Earl Wilson, "saloon editor" of the New York Post, who relayed some choice Menckenisms. Samples...
...secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
...echoes. Miss Dunne, despite her own kinds of charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good shot: the commanding officer's patronizing offer to help his hosts extract a frozen ice tray, and the cataclysmic result...
...lightest and brightest moments You Came Along follows with gusto the happy shenanigans of three heroic and irresponsible Army pilots (Robert Cummings, Don DeFore, Charles Drake) assigned to tour the U.S. on a bond-selling mission. They are under the supervision of Treasury Agent I. V. Hotchkiss. When I. V. turns out to be Ivy, a svelte, dazzling gilthead (Lizabeth Scott), all the necessary ingredients are in the shaker. If only the bitters had been left out, the result would be a refreshing hot-weather mixture of laughter and lighthearted love...