Word: lustier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made by the new one. It is all the panics in Wall Street, all the riots in lunatic asylums, all the election nights in Times Square, all the Fourths of July in history, and all the alarm clocks in the world going off at once. But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show. Lena still wanders up & down the aisles calling for Oscar, the little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying...
...lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives, paltry Eunuchs . . . and trills of insignificant, outlandish vowels...
...turn such blades efficiently, airplanes must have lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
Those who favored lustier interpretations of the part were frankly disappointed at Gielgud's refusal or inability to scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
...humor is of a much lustier breed. Much of it is simply the practical joke. At least one third of the gags, for example, are built about a broken-down illiterate cowboy star's being baited by two mad pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss...