Word: pep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solved when Noah, the gigantic, bearded father of one of Sadie's three informal children, takes umbrage at the usurper, comes down the mountain with his fowling piece. After a careful rehearsal of grunts, groans, screams and floor-poundings, the two are shown wrestling in the arena. Pep talk before the bout: "Never forget, boys, that a good wrestler is always a good performer...
...highly successful passing drill in dummy scrimmage against a Jayvee team, the A eleven once again displayed the pep and drive that was familiar in pre-Army days. Both players and coaches feel that the team gained valuable seasoning experience in the unfortunate West Point incident, and are entertaining hopes bordering upon convictions that the visitors from Hanover will receive a much warmer reception on Saturday than a 32-0 drubbing on the previous game day would seem to indicate...
...most part sermons today are a very poor edition of 'topical' homiletics, a brand of religious pep-talks, sailing forth for a transitory popularity under the guise of being inspirational. Truly the miracle of the Church is the patience of the laity...
Music men go in heavily for pep-talks, high-pressure promotion. A poignant little editorial in the Etude Music Magazine last year related the tale of a millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about...
...giving everything I have, Boss, except the talent, personality, pep, or whatever it was that put me in the money as Little Elsie, and kept me there for 30 years. . , . Maybe G. H. Q. has been testing me. Wanting proof that no matter how high a command He bestowed upon me, I would still listen to orders. . . . This morning, Boss, I received my Community Chest notification and was sneering at its puniness when I got a snappy order. It's this: the end of summer will see an auction...