Word: gusto
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...powers. He smokes, drinks with gusto, works like a dog, ashore lives a Spartan life in a modest house in Tokyo's suburbs. He has firm control of his heavy-lipped, firm-jawed face, and crops his hair short to look more like the man of action that...
Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
Making her first Broadway appearance, 16-year-old Patricia Peardon tears into the role of Judy with engaging gusto. But as Fuffy, Lenore Lonergan (the brat in The Philadelphia Story) runs away with every scene she plays...
...artists Repin and Surikov fixed in oil a sense of Russian gusto: Repin's Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan curses in color. General Suvarov, who slaughtered the Turks at Ismail and the Poles at Warsaw, showed that in war a Russian can be ruthless. General Kutuzov, who lured Napoleon to his fate, showed that he can be shrewd...
...Chosen for outstanding talent from New York's public and parochial schools, these children were sons and daughters of taxi drivers, shoemakers, waiters, ranged in race and nationality from Chinese, Polish and Syrian to Harlem Negro and plain U.S. Anglo-Saxon. Their pictures crawled and bubbled with youthful gusto. They also showed a keen sense of observation, and the painstaking craftsmanship that results from purposeful intention rather than youthful accident...