Word: gustos
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...Author, Anne Green, like her heroine a young expatriate in Paris, unlike her heroine has not taken a husband. She writes gaily, is photographed with a smile. A tendency to be kittenish, faintly observable in her first book, obtrudes in her second. But she writes with gusto, a rare quality, and her people are superficial enough to be amusingly lifelike...
Smith. Citizen Smith had warmed up for his Massachusetts trip with three speeches for the State ticket in New York. He was in old time form, grinning much, champing his cigar, full of vigor and gusto. At New Haven on the back platform of his private car he greeted Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, onetime dean of the Yale Graduate School, now the Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut, by clapping the Brown Derby upon the old gentleman's head and down over his ears. At Providence he bluntly began an address to 15,000: "Well...
...elusive "third dimension" for which producers have been experimenting so eagerly, but which is simply a big screen. Some of the sequences in which John Mack Brown drawls through the role of Billy are effective, many of them are absurd, and in general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where...
...ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine gun crew ripped off belts of blank cartridges with such gusto that it was only after being surrounded by a squad of "enemy" soldiers and rebuked by several staff officers that they would take off their steel helmets, play dead...
...Iowa last week Congressman Lester Jesse Dickinson and Governor John Hammill rounded out their primary campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination with all the customary political gusto of the Midwest. Congressman Dickinson ''stood on his record," proclaimed this week's vote "a referendum on President Hoover," extolled the pending tariff bill. Governor Hammill also "stood on his record," insisted President Hoover was no issue in Iowa, denounced the tariff bill...