Word: zestful
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...show itself was one of the highlights of a drama-studded week. In telling the story of a husband bedeviled by the ghost of his first wife (and then of his second wife), Coward got notable support from Mildred Natwick, who played a zany medium with all the comic zest she had brought to the part in its Broadway opening some 15 years ago. Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall, as the materializing wives, looked their parts more adequately than they played them, and Actress Bacall sometimes seemed uneasy when reciting the litany of her infidelities, as if she expected...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...
...hero of the rescue was Chicago's Tycoon J. (for Joseph) Patrick Lannan, 50, whose enthusiasm for the poets' corner has been obscured until now by his zest for cornering corporate stocks (TIME July 25). Yet for years, Lannan has wooed the muse with unpublished verse and unpublicized donations to Poetry. When he learned that the magazine might succumb to an unpaid printer's bill he determined to give it all the benefits of high-pressure, big-business promotion. "I could have just given them $25,000 " he explained, "but that would have been the easy...
...York's] David McKay Co., McCall's Magazine and [London's] Sunday Express-that Mr. Amory's employment was terminated." With Amory's unfinished 300-page manuscript thus brushed aside as "unsatisfactory" hack work, a brand-new ghost was hastily materialized. Starry-eyed with zest for his task, McKay Co.'s Editor Kenneth Rawson exulted: "I have found the duchess filled with desire to tell the truth...
...such scenes Wouk gives his people a special tang and zest. A Passover dinner at the Morgensterns' is turned into a hilarious romp by a progressively raised brat named Neville ("The Devil") Sapersteen, who bites little girls in the rump and needs 47 toy airplanes handy at all times in an open suitcase because, as the mother explains, they're "a sort of security symbol." ("Morris, leave the lid up or he'll get a trauma...