Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fryn Tennyson Jesse is a woman, the grandniece of the late Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...
...greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics" in which all feel competent to participate...
...compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made her stop using slang, which she learned from Maurice Chevalier. Ignoring the current vogue for inaccessibility in imported film players, Ketti Gallian appeared at parties all dressed up, gave interviews with zest. She managed to keep her weight down riding a bicycle and swimming. Less sexy than many importations, she has a quick charm and an informal blonde beauty. She has gone back to France, will return for another picture...
This system promises to add new zest to the usual continue of undergraduate governmental enquiry, more or less stereotyped by its very nature. Now, however the introduction of the personal element will provide intriguing possibilities of dissection a candidate's personality and character as well as his political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does...
...inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time...