Word: gusto
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Normal Happiness. Few devout men managed to combine orthodoxy with gusto so successfully as Chesterton. When T. S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," Chesterton burst out: "I'm damned if I ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence...
...once, energetic Eleanor Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
...forthright, energetic, middle-aged lady and she was more exciting than anything the antipodes had seen in many a down-under moon. Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the U.S., leaving New Zealand breathless and charmed by her energetic gusto, flew on to Australia...
...that all but six of its 13,000-odd men were volunteers. They were already calling themselves "the first team." They drilled, maneuvered, played under their shoulder patch (the figure 1 in red) with a special swagger, and they roared out the infantry's song with a special gusto...
...first of a series of summer concerts by a small group of players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon in-Sander Theatre. The 15-piece orchestra opened this all-Mozart program with the light and sparkling Divertimento in D. Major (K. 251), directed by Boris Goldovsky with athletic gusto. Mr. Gold-ovsky's conducting technique shows in many respects the influence of Kousse-vitsky, with the addition, however, of more vigorous motion of the hands in lnd cating the smaller nuances. Fornand Gillet distinguished himself in several difficult oboe, passages, but Mrs. Goldovsky's rendering of the three Mozart...