Word: gusto
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...seemed full of life when the column marched homeward to Leverett House through the late afternoon traffic. That rollicking song of the carefree soldier, "I've Got Sixpense," roared out of every throat with a wave of gusto, hitting the high notes especially on the line "Happy is the day when the Army gets...
Shapiro's comments on the American scene are remarkably fresh and versatile, touch on such matters of general interest as haircuts, Buick cars, street accidents, the Washington Cathedral, army camps, the housefly, Hollywood. Shapiro describes American democracy with the satirical gusto of an outcast who feels he is in the know about what it is really like...
Although the College's veteran janitor believes that the students still consume their scotch and soda with the customary gusto, they have lost a tride of the barbarism which exposed itself thirty years ago. He used always to see lines of women's intimate belongings strung out along lines from Little Block to posts on the other side of the street...
...Shut Outs and their kind- They get the headlines and the fame- And that I do not mind; But Mucho Gusto gets my vote
Technique. The man who related this surgical back-fence gossip with such gusto did his first operation alone-he thinks it was for hernia - on a woman at Blackwell's almshouse (now New York City's Welfare Island). He made his fortune during many years of operating on five or more patients a day, becoming the grand old man of Manhattan surgery. His limousine, with driver and red setter in front, the doctor and his sociable wife in back, is a familiar sight on tree-lined 70th Street where he lives...