Word: gustos
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...sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which to get a start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with gusto and out of which he emerges embittered. But the Civil War kills Stewart's father, crumbles Southern castes, gives Jimmy his victory...
...ANGLING is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so," said Izaak Walton; and Bliss Perry's three essays on fishing seem abundant proof of this statement. Only a born angler could write with such gusto, or make the subject seem so alive to the reader. Three essays--"Fishing with a Worm," "Fishing with a Fly," and "Revisiting a River"--make up this book; all appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
...remains that Wagner's amours have only such significance as they have attained in their mutation into art. Louis Barthou's book competently threads together previously known facts, describes with Gallic wit and speed encounters of that nature which Frenchmen, both in funny papers and reality, enjoy with special gusto. But since it tells little that is new and only brushes over the old, it is to be regarded more as a series of entertaining anecdotes than as a consequential item in the lists of Wagnerian biography...
...earth, once described to me an extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four...
...Benny." To delighted correspondents at Shanghai, Lieutenant Commander Roy Campbell Smith, U. S. N., told last week with infectious gusto how, as Commander of the destroyer Noa, he had ordered the bombardment of Nanking (TIME, April 4) in order to save the lives of the U. S. Consul and other U. S. citizens beseiged in the city. The spectre of Commodore Dewey, and his ringing command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley!" kindled in the correspondents' imagination as their pencils raced to take down the words of hearty, beaming Lieutenant Commander Smith...