Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such complete absence of pedantry. Professor Becker carries his learning lightly and the evident relish with which his sophisticated intellect exposes the "rationalizations" and illusions of the men who "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials" gives a fine zest to his book. "The Heavenly City" is a treasure-chest for the student of the Revolution and it ought not to be missed by anyone who is interested in the development of "climates of opinion...
...week it is The Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move and glitter...
...serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense, and in providing that complete ad absurdum which is the essence of true farce. To this movie there is a verve, a zest, an esprit which stamps it as typically French...
...need the spirit and adventure in cookery in order to add zest to cuisine," cried Professor Mary Van Arsdale of Teachers College...
...scrapped a perfectly good column to go out on a rumor tangle only to find that someone had struck another false alarm. But there is something fascinating about all this. Big news breaks now and then. These breaks make up for the slow days and put a new zest into the life of the newspaper world...