Word: gusto
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...Given a program, given the political power to legalize it, it nevertheless took a dynamic personality to hammer the mold of "in- dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such a man had to possess an enormous amount of physical energy. He had to have gusto. He had to be a phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda. He had to have the ruthless drive of a Cromwell and the tact of a Disraeli In 2,000 A D. there will still be alive hundreds & hundreds of octogenarians to whom the words...
Still very much in the saddle in spite of reports that he would soon retire from NRA, ham-handed General Johnson with oldtime cavalry gusto dismissed Pittsburgh's NRAdministrator, John S. Fisher. Mr. Fisher was no mere local booster who had climbed on the Recovery bandwagon, but once (1927-30) Pennsylvania's Republican Governor. He had made a speech in which he criticized NRA for making "no provisions for financing the load of rising costs which it necessarily placed on producer and consumer." When General Johnson heard this he dispatched a curt six-line letter demanding Mr. Fisher...
...Sloan still had barrels of money. He spent it with enormous gusto on a Sheepshead Bay mansion, a yacht, roulette, dice, loud clothes, parties at Shanley's, Rector's, Delmonico's. In 1907 he married Musicomedienne Julia Sanderson who divorced him a year later. Most of his fortune vanished in Wall Street because he attempted to "play" along with the rich men for whom he had ridden...
...imaginative, account of heaven. Like all accounts of heaven it presents the famous rogues and scoundrels who might conceivably be found in heaven, all of whom, as usual, appear a little stiff and formal and uncomfortable under scrutiny. Unlike most such books, this one has a freshness and a gusto which almost, but not quite, overcome the triteness of the idea and the limitations which are inherent in every author who considers an imaginative description of heaven suitable material for a book. This author, like most of his predecessors in this particular field, finds that he needs a comprehensive knowledge...
That the astute gentlemen who represent American High Finance find themselves increasingly subject to dizziness, fainting spells, and insomnia is certainly no cause for wonder. Nor will Pepso, Postum, or Sanka afford them any relief, for down in Washington the realistically-minded Mr. Pecora continues to dissect, with gusto, their jowly leaders, and after every such operation their brains are freighted with dismal adumbrations...