Word: zestfulness
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...friend, Tom, and I had been filled with the abounding zest and ambition of youth. We were determined to make something of ourselves, to go out into the world and do big things in a big way. One day Tom showed me the modest prospectus of the I. C. S., flanked on one side by a Holeproof Hosiery miss and on the other by an earnest exhortation to "Ask Dad, He Knows...
...Catherine" last Monday night, it had to rise some ten or a dozen times for the audience to express its approval. The general enthusiasm continued as high during the second play, and indeed increased, for the presence on the stage of Mr. Clive brought, as it always does, more zest to the acting of everybody...
...friction's cause-not entirely sympathetic with the epochal Fordney-McCumber tariff. He joined recently with the Democratic Commissioners in officially advising the President to reduce the import duty on sugar-advice which has so far been ignored. But Mr. Culbertson has none of the insurgent's zest for battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor...
...This mingling of society and those who have achieved something in the arts gives to English society a relish, a zest and a flavor which you can't get in New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Chicago...
...Those who know what they are going to do after graduation certainly have an advantage; they can choose the necessary courses; they can take those courses at the most suitable time in the three upper-class years; and what is still more important they are likely to feel increased zest for doing their college work...