Word: gustos
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...lightning. Above his pudgy face, lighted by a bulbous nose, his brain was a melting pot for furious fancies. It fumed with a thousand energetic inspirations which varied from running a printing press to writing the Comedie Humaine. Everything he did was characterized by a gigantic and exaggerated gusto. At dinner with George Sand "three bottles had been emptied. He pointed to them: 'We are not drinking!' After they had consumed six dozen oysters, he pointed to the shells: 'What's wrong with you all tonight? Does nobody feel hungry...
Bottomland. Because Clarence Williams, Negro radio entertainer, is popular "on the air," he thought himself capable of presenting a successful Negro revue. This was a mistake. His show, full of poor white pretensions, ineffective gusto, and brown whirligigs will probably not last long enough to harm greatly his reputation...
...French Chamber of Deputies cheered with gusto when U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick introduced Captain Lindbergh as "this new Ambassador of the United States, whom France has so warmly taken to her heart...
Patience. Gusto and gay abandon are the birthright of the rollicking operettas of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical...
...book form they are not quite so funny. Artist Peter Arno created them with so few strokes of his charcoal and such a rare vein of middle-aged-female innuendo, that their gusto seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack...