Word: vim
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...only really remarkable thing about Toplitzky is the almost ferocious vim with which everyone performs; the chorus behaves as if it might tackle anyone in the audience who didn't cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame...
Another, no less remarkable, was the Little Review, founded in Chicago in 1914 by a woman of even greater vim. Margaret Anderson wanted to fill it with "the best conversation the world has to offer," and for some years she pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...
...State Department was buzzing with vim & vigor last week, and its collective face was wreathed in smiles of jolly good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell Hull's cherished rubber plant. Under scaffolds and around carpet-menders, platinum-topped Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius bustled like a busy host at a party. He invited the press to the swearing-in of five of his six new top aides,* whom he fondly calls his team...
...heart on his sleeve. Wrote PM's Managing Editor John P. Lewis in an editorial: ". . . The TIME report . . . nailed down the situation and our role in it better than we had been able to do ourselves. . . . 'Hyperthyroid' (take it from TIME) PM . . . appreciates the 'vim' tag but mildly denies 'characteristic shrillness.' Or - maybe I could, be wrong...
...obsessed by no such fears, with characteristic shrillness and vim had snatched up the story, made it one of Boston's best beats in months...