Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry in Marion County. The peppermint so scented the press ink fountains that the odor continued through the editions for several days...
...power activities and, though not its chairman, admittedly its prime-mover is David Eli Lilienthal. Short, baldish and a bear for work. Dave Lilienthal like a number of other New Dealers is young (35), Jewish and a Harvard Law School graduate who was fired with his zest for public wealing by Felix Frankfurter. For years he has been battling the ogre of private ownership. President Roosevelt picked him from Wisconsin's unorthodox public service commission...
...rich gravy. Critics of Fannie Hurst call her the most violent of domesticated female writers, say that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated...
CHARLES J. FINGER, according to Lewis Gannett, has "a gusto and zest for the good things of life." Whether or not that has anything to do with his having seven children, have more than a little to do with Charles J. Finger and his literary work. It was they who moved him to write the host of juvenile stories which won him some reputation as an author; and now, because he thinks it's awfully nice to read to the kiddies round the fireside on a cold winter's night, he has written a hodge-podge mumbledy-jumbledy guide...
...founded 'to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity.' ... In the last analysis, it is only by advancing learning that it is possible to perpetuate it. When knowledge ceases to expand and develop it becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the community. ... A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university...