Word: gustos
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...Press, with characteristic gusto, last week continued to lionize the new trans-Neptunian planet (TIME, March 24). Equally characteristic were despatches from England stating that British astronomers doubted the discovery, despatches from Germany referring laconically to "the Comet Lowell," despatches from France stating.that French astronomers had discovered over 100 planetoids during the past year...
...department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...
Inside the shop, on shelves as green and spruce as a housewife's kitchen cabinet, gleamed all sorts of whiskies, gins, ports, sherries, liqueurs-some labeled "non-alcoholic," others with standard booze labels -all offered by the genial clerk with gusto...
...good looking men that girls of a decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good...
...short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He plays with gusto many parts?Napoleon, Joe Cans, Franz Schubert, Don Juan, Diablero?all waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning on Muni as Napoleon...