Word: gustos
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Thus exalted, John Lord proceeded to write melodrama and farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter...
...transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare...
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SHIFTING from dramatic satire, George Kelly, the author of "The Torch Bearers and "The Show off" has entered the field of comedy with gusto in his latest play. "Craig's Wife...
Some 41 years ago Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically...