Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selassie, Göring & Pajamas. Zest and pace were given to the approaching Coronation by striking events last week. With faint shrugs and slightly lifted eyebrows civil servants of the Foreign Office told the press that, since His Majesty's Government still recognize the Ethiopian Government of Haile Selassie (although he has been driven from Addis Ababa) and the Spanish Government of Francisco Largo Caballero (although he has been driven from Madrid), invitations have had to be dispatched to these Governments asking them to send representatives to the Coronation. At news of this Benito Mussolini, who was recently appeased...
...directly to the Tsar. What Pushkin did not understand was that the Tsar thought him too potentially useful to be imprisoned, too dangerous not to be watched. But until he discovered that he was not really free, Pushkin was overjoyed, dove into his old gay life with more zest than ever. He even got permission to visit St. Petersburg, gambled away 17,000 rubles in two months...
...ZEST FOR LIFE-Johan W011er-Knopf ($2.50). Sumatra again, as remembered by an esthetic Dane, who, 30 years ago, a copy of Keats's poems in his pocket, participated in the last of the native wars which from 1872 cost the Dutch forces over...
...Cuban Marquise de Casa Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news." Not so the august London Times (circulation...
...much more liberal allotment of funds for direct expenditures in the control of the venereal diseases." Under Josephine Roche, sociologically-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who opened last week's Conference, Dr. Parran has $10,000,000 to carry out the 1937 campaign. Brimming with zest, the conferees last week urged Dr. Parran to ask Congress for another...