Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been heard from. The mysterious and importunate friend who always urges statesmen to write their memoirs has finally prevailed on David Lloyd George. His first two fat volumes (918 pp.), telling his side of the story through 1916, are written with that shrewd candor and political zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them generally entertaining, may draw from them the conclusion...
...Without doubt, the greatest single advantage of the competition is the development of a candidate's self-confidence. He learns the art of meeting personalities and mastering novel situations. The fact that the candidate works under a congenial group of men, all striving toward a common end, adds real zest to his duties...
...Boles who makes love to a newcomer, Margaret Sullavan, with plenty of savoir and no little wissen. Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should be worn. The stars are well backed up by Billie...
...childhood is always poignantly brought home to us whenever we read so excellent a story as that of the Colonel's children. There are three of them, all under the care of the most entertaining Mammy there ever could be, and it is she who provides the pathos and zest in her lovingly abusive handling of these refractory "chillun". The locale might be any southern town and the phrases of the youngsters are largely composed of the rich, picturesque language of the Negro...
...adds zest to the summer if you playfully conceal anything you may find on the chairs...