Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his cheerful zest for getting things done, President Roosevelt saw $2,000,000 worth of pork, lard, wheat flour and rice dispatched with utmost urgency to Havana. Mr. Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week...
...becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the present or future. The community loses interest, and the youth of the country responds to other challenges. Able young men enlist in an enterprise only if they are persuaded that they, too, may contribute by creative work. A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university. In the future as in the past, teachers must be scholars who are extending the frontiers of knowledge in every direction. I hope there will never be a separation of our faculty into those who teach and those who carry...
...favor this plan. Last week Dr. Goebbels compelled every German paper to publish accounts of a supposedly idyllic meeting between Chancellor and President. Old Paul declared that Gentle Adolf "within a short period" has put the German people through a "complete mental and spiritual rebirth" and given them "new zest...
...tryout by Tallant Tubbs, 36, wealthy San Francisco ropemaker who in 1932 was defeated for the Senate in California by William Gibbs McAdoo. As a socialite playboy Actor Tubbs pops on & off stage trying to con sole a beauteous Parkavian heroine after she is stricken with brain trouble, loses zest for her customary pleasures. "I'm giving the role everything I've got," said Actor Tubbs...
Frankly jubilant as Ambassador Welles hopped off was Tom Pettey, ebullient New York Herald Tribune newsman, who has covered Cuba's series of revolutions with zeal and zest...