Word: gustos
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This spectacle titillated the city's Democrats. They sent a summary of the testimony to all county organizations and the Democratic National Committee, charging that saloon money was being used to finance the local Republican organization. With imaginative gusto the Democrats pictured the saloons of all 48 wards turning a possible $560,000 into Republican tills...
...distinguished Saturday Review of Literature at that. Likening the lives of showfolk to "April days blended of sun and showers," Mr. Ziegfeld brings Author McEvoy to task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker...
...Story is told by Novelist Mussolini with kinetic gusto, occasional pathos, and incessant priest-baiting, cardinal-baiting and even Pope-baiting. Choosing the 17th Century as his period, he pithily sets scene, sketches characters...
Sometimes horse flesh is so deftly cooked, so tastily disguised as to be chomped with gusto by U. S. tourists in Paris-chiefly at certain hotels with English or American names and a superfluity of catch-babbitt bathrooms...
Only four members of the Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where...