Word: gustos
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...Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
Franklin Roosevelt has been too long in public life not to have left a well-documented trail of opinions on most subjects, including the Constitution, behind him. Republican editors, like bloodhounds on the scent, soon sniffed out and printed with gleeful gusto a speech he made by radio in 1930 when he was Governor of New York. Broadcasting to the nation Mr. Roosevelt had declared: "It was clear to the framers of our Constitution that . . . any national Administration attempting to make all laws for the whole nation, such as was wholly practical in Great Britain, would inevitably result...
...spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read his statement, his words crackled and thundered with oldtime gusto. Excerpts...
...stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
...good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...