Word: gusto
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...Gibes & Gusto. Making allowances for inevitable shortages of equipment and for the fact that the maneuver season was just beginning, they saw a realistic, competent job of battle craft...
...essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
Once they were just 25 amateurs, sawing and whuffing under the baton of a music-store proprietor. Last week they were still partly amateur. But with near-professional gusto, in the final concert of its season, the El Paso Symphony bounced through a professional program: Delius, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, the Beethoven first symphony and-with an imported professional soloist, Violinist Henry Temianka -the Lalo Symphonic Espagnole...
...exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does not spare her uncanny physical charms...
Henderson laid hands on his new job with the gusto of a man who has starved for months for just such power to put over his ideas. "You can name anything and I would say that prices are already too high," he told his first press conference. "All of our prices must not go higher. All prices ought to come down." To keep them down he promised to use "economic sanctions." Specific industries he said he planned to go into are textiles, coal, steel, drugs, chemicals, non-ferrous metals, building supplies, machinery, hides and leather...