Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is certainly a fine plan, and adds just the proper zest and sporting instinct to a game which in other places has started to become a bit tiresome. Unfortunately the speakeasy, like the fox at the hunt, doesn't stand a chance, but the plan is a laudable effort to keep alive one of our finest national sports. And in twenty miles there is plenty of time to sober...
...once color and zest vanished from the casinos. There was chemin de jer and boule for small punters, but serious gamesters missed the Greeks, whose standing challenge is that they are good for any bet up to 50,000,000 francs ($1,950,000). Also the casino proprietors missed the steady income from baccarat "kitties." Who was the man to replace the Greeks...
...Cross nurse (niece of the general in charge of his division), marries her, goes back to the front, is reported dead. He turns up again later when the nurse is stifling her sorrow by running a rowdy resort on the Riviera. It is all nicely photographed and acted with zest and stupidity by Gary Cooper and pretty, lymphatic June Collyer. Typical shot: philosophic conversation between the two principals about what war does to people...
...then there is the spread which antedates the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1639. The present has inherited all of this zest and feeling of an institution that harks back to the beginnings of Harvard. Yet all of this is mere froth, brilliant colors and empty noise. But behind it there is a meaning, and a very substantial tradition. It is the pageant of the unforgettable past...
Eugenie Leontovich in the part of a pseudo-Baroness is both vivacious and amusing. Moreover, when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy...