Word: zest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemingly gets a tremendous zest out of life. Breaking her promise five minutes after it was made not to mention the theatre, she expounded her theory of what the American theatre has to offer in the way of development. Miss Kennedy is a firm believer in the use of dress, settings, and a minimum of makeup to accentuate development of plot or character when the lines are not nearly sufficient. She used illustrations profusely from "Michael and Mary" to prove her points. Miss Kennedy emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme...
...leather and somewhat sombre respectability of the Ritz Carlton contributed an air of calm that is quite unusual in theatrical interviews, but Miss Margalo Gilmore of "Berkeley Square" succeeded in providing sufficient zest to compensate for the absent back stage excitement it was a sort of fire without the smoke arrangement which is to say that it was somewhat of a simplification of the ever-present, bold intrusiveness of an interviewer...
...them are emotionally simple, and obtain from their work a satisfaction so profound that they can derive pleasure from eating, and even marrying." Russell thinks happiness is not a gift received but a conquest to be won. If you want to be happy you must work for it, acquire zest, congenial work, impersonal interests, freedom from worry, resignation. "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile...
...distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that...
Present-day college educators have provided the student with a pleasant array of physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...