Word: gustos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only four members of the Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where...
...insistence upon his own boredom with the matter in hand and indifference to the curiosity of his reader, Author Wylie tells his age-old story with gusto, relish, and a naïve zest in his discovery of the differences between two successive generations. Wise enough, perhaps, to know that there is no answer, he offers none...
...President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1926-27), and is gradually taking over the superintendence of his father's shipping interests. Father & father-in-law Sir Walter Runciman, no longer a seaman but an ardent yachtsman, has recently completed an autobiograpical work of much gusto and sap, entitled appropriately Before the Mast-and After...
...cold relish for cruelty and a quiet gusto for torture are not untypical of the Celestial race. Who has traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once...
...field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...