Word: gustos
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...creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today...
...their chief relaxation the two old campaigners stopped at the Battlefield of Sakarya and General Kemal explained with gusto how he beat the Greeks in 1921. So close grew the confab of host and guest at this point that Turkish and Persian journalists reported ecstatically afterward: "They have become real friends, personal friends and brothers!" At Smyrna, to his grave delight, the King of Kings received personal command of some Turkish troops who pitched under his orders into an exciting sham battle with airplanes raining "boom bombs...
...Segura, a bold, bad, South American, was outstanding, it failed to excel the performance of Retta, played by Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, who truly met the requirements of any man's ideal girl. Joseph D. Fisher '35 portrayed a vivacious young lady named Mamie with the proper amount of gusto, and Kenneth Di Menna '34 succeeded in amusing the audience as the Amewican Awistocrat, Lieuteuant Cadwallader, who had slight difficulty in speaking...
Best avoid as much as possible of the vaudeville at the Orpheum, unless you enjoy Old Howard jokes done in Raymond ad dialect. There was one number on the bill which did not seem so bad, the work of Mr. Emile Borreo, who sings the Marsaillaise with a gusto, discreetly omitting the best stanza, "les bourgeoises a la lanterne..." For these things Mr. Robert Montgomery and Miss Elizabeth Allen are sufficient compensation
Tokyo, which put him on his throne, celebrated the occasion with gusto. There were receptions and banquets. Young men's marching clubs and army reservists tramped through the streets of Tokyo with lanterns. Cried Foreign Minister Koki Hirota: ''Today's happy event was brought about by the will of Heaven and is in perfect accord with the wish of the people...