Word: zestfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willkie-ish liberal, "Olive," as she is called in South Dakota, measures 5 ft. 10 in stocking feet, weighs a solid 193 lb., wears a size eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield...
...deep lines around Franklin Roosevelt's mouth had bitten deeper; his hair was thinner, turning from grey to white. But the powerful shoulders, the vitality of a big man, the zest for a good, tension-snapping belly laugh, were as big as ever...
Dmitri Shostakovich started making himself understood in 1926, when, in contrast to much modern music that sounded merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...
MURDER WITH YOUR MALTED-Jerome Barry-Crime Club ($2). An outbreak of food and soda poisoning in a Manhattan drugstore drives the young owners almost frantic until a police inspector sets a trap that catches the killer. Soda-fountain argot and wisecracking Broadway dialogue add zest to the well-tangled plot...
...there arrived from Hollywood a pretty young lassie from Movieland, complete with the usual accoutrement of her kind--a press agent, an advance build-up, and a pair of legs. The photographers swarmed around her; the reporters avidly inquired into her love life; and her Twentieth Century Boswell added zest to the day's occupation by buzzing in and out with little extra facts and side remarks. This morning the news will go out from here to the West Coast that Harvard is mixed up in the movie racket again...