Word: gusto
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What is the significance of such a state of affairs? The over-zealous moralist will imply with gusto that the public has a genuine esteem for the perpetration of evil, and that the country is at last on its way to perdition. Such a conclusion must be rejected; the prominence given to the fabulous annals of crime admits of a more significant explanation...
...voted their desire for independence from Madrid. In the four Catalonian provinces (Barcelona, Lerida, Tarragona, Gerona) 173,000 voted for autonomy, 2,517 voted against it. It was a 70 to 1 victory for Col. Francisco Macia, wild-eyed "President" of Catalonia, a victory that he celebrated with much gusto...
...this latter change is a noteworthy one. The Advocate has branched out into the field of provocative essay writing with a gusto that is encouraging and convincing. Casting a strict literary tradition aside she publishes in her current Spring number a thoughtful article that scrapes the sham off of the English Department and one that at the same time puts both modern architecture and the Harkness Hoot in their places. In fact, the Advocate has, in its conservative manner, gone "Hoot". Its editorial gives every indication that it intends to continue this newly established policy. The writing of essays...
...make him look taller. He is Svengali, the musical hypnotist of the Latin quarter, in a story that is Du Maurier's Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played up. Barrymore handles all the artifices of the acting trade with gusto and intelligence. He meets Trilby at the time when she has fallen in love with a charming English aristocrat and by his occult power charms her away from her true love so that he can make money exploiting her bell-like voice. He can hypnotize her at any distance...
...become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism is more than histrionic. Typical shot: Pallette, as a pseudo-Sioux chief, trying to understand why, if a girl is Sue (Sioux) her father is not Sioux also...