Word: gustos
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...Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office. He takes his politics with the same gusto that he plays bridge (he is an expert) and patronizes sport (he goes to all big fights, baseball, football, polo games in his airplane). At Houston in 1928 he threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher acquitted of murder, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration...
...department: "For a Puritanized American writer to show gusto would be comparable to a Harvard Professor who writes books admitting that he enjoyed the sex act." B. De. Casseres, "Mencken and Shaw...
...Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any singing Irishman to take McCormack's place." he rose and throbbed out "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Mother Macree" with sentimental gusto...
Such a resume hardly does Miss Bishop justice. The late great Thomas Hardy also piled coincidences and hounded his heroines relentlessly. No Hardy, but a popular novelist with a popular novelist's faults and virtues, Authoress Aldrich writes with feminine gusto, human warmth...
...chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber's Bible." It continued to make a feature of pictures...