Word: gusto
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...recent years. Fortnight ago before bald James Monroe Hewlett sailed to take up his duties as Director of the American Academy in Rome he announced that teaching students to copy classic remains was "not the Academy's idea at all" (TIME, Sept. 26). This statement was hailed with gusto by hawser-lipped Walter Pach. He announced that that was just what he was going to do at the Art Students' League, hold a course in Tradition which will teach art students how to look at Old Masters, insulating them at the same time from imitation...
...glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head. But Practical-Joker Jensen had not killed the children, who are alive, well...