Word: zestfulness
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...Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling pastime, which coupled with the high worth of the cause would seem to add much to the gentle art of giving, --to the Harvard Law School Endowment Fund...
...famed feminist exponent of temperance Viscountess Nancy Astor, M. P.: "What does the noble lady know from experience of the effects of small beer? The noble lady should become a member for one month of the Ancient Order of Frothblowers and diligently observe their slogan: 'Gallup your beer with zest...
Fifty-nine years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...
...whispering gallery whispered in 1922 when Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, young society girl, married Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, a man twice her age. Today no one can say that it has not been a happy marriage, that Mrs. Edge has not added a youthful zest to Washington society, that she has not brightened the lives of unhappy Congressional wives at many an otherwise dull luncheon or dinner. This January she was undoubtedly surprised and flattered to hear that she had come within a few votes of being elected president of the Congressional Club...
...This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest and verve, doing more than their share of the work. Moreover, they do it as if it were play...