Word: plucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WITH the inevitable comparison to Pluck and Luck," "Of All Things" and "Love Conquers All" staring it in the face, Mr. Benchley's latest collection of scientific discussions, little home-talks and slightly drunken essays is perilously close to having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud...
...Reno's go-getters did it. Until it was all over the Neyada legislature did not realize that they had reduced the time of necessary in Nevada for prospective divorcees from six to three months. Again American pluck and daring has set the golden West several jumps ahead of the backward Latins of France and Mexico...
...power of will that enables one, as a leader, to control masses of men. He must subject all alike, himself included, to that discipline which is a bond stronger than iron; more impervious than adamant. He must have not only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home in the hollow tree hidden in the labyrinth of the forest...
...great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...
...Harvard men did not have the satisfaction of celebrating a Crimson victory Saturday, they did have the pleasure of watching a remarkable Princeton team. Its dash, its power, its pluck warmed the heart of every true enthusiast. The result was all the more unusual in that the New Jersey warriors were consigned to mediocrity by the "men in the street." One more proof of indomitable Tiger courage is set down in the Book of the Past, and it is to that spirit that Harvard pays deference...