Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week burst from his cell with a yell like a Siberian monk's. A Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost as much gusto as Phil Stong but almost as much sweetness & light as Lloyd Douglas (Green Light)-that he promised, in short, to be another J. B. Priestley. In A Horse in Arizona the gusto was still there but the sweetness & light were noticeably lacking. Author Paul had taken a vacation from...
...rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs of charred bread at breakfast. I wish to point out, however, that enjoyment and digestion are not synonymous. In the case of the hog the coal...
...distinguishing feature of Fascism that military accomplishments are loudly extolled, and foreign countries defied, whenever economic pressures increase. As the food shortage grows more serious in Rome, also do the "victory songs" grow louder and Italian medicinemen beat the tom-toms of hate and self-adulation with increasing gusto. Mussolini is faced with increased living costs, an unbalanced budget, a shortage and an upset foreign trade, and he has realized that only by playing on the passions of his Latin populace can he divert its minds from dwelling upon its economic position or physical sufferings...
English journalism in China still keeps much of the gusto it has lost at home. For example, Mr. Woodhead, when he was editing the Peking & Tientsin Times, came forth with this amazing advertisement...
...fair, blue-eyed Kansan, Editor Shively went to the University of Nebraska and to Columbia, is exceedingly modest and possessed of considerable charm. He writes with a cynical gusto that sometimes startles the Sun's sedate readers, occasionally breaks from earnest interpretation into verse such as this, which was run under a subhead...