Word: zestful
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...rich gravy. Critics of Fannie Hurst call her the most violent of domesticated female writers, say that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated...
CHARLES J. FINGER, according to Lewis Gannett, has "a gusto and zest for the good things of life." Whether or not that has anything to do with his having seven children, have more than a little to do with Charles J. Finger and his literary work. It was they who moved him to write the host of juvenile stories which won him some reputation as an author; and now, because he thinks it's awfully nice to read to the kiddies round the fireside on a cold winter's night, he has written a hodge-podge mumbledy-jumbledy guide...
With his cheerful zest for getting things done, President Roosevelt saw $2,000,000 worth of pork, lard, wheat flour and rice dispatched with utmost urgency to Havana. Mr. Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week...
...founded 'to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity.' ... In the last analysis, it is only by advancing learning that it is possible to perpetuate it. When knowledge ceases to expand and develop it becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the community. ... A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university...
...becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the present or future. The community loses interest, and the youth of the country responds to other challenges. Able young men enlist in an enterprise only if they are persuaded that they, too, may contribute by creative work. A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university. In the future as in the past, teachers must be scholars who are extending the frontiers of knowledge in every direction. I hope there will never be a separation of our faculty into those who teach and those who carry...