Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children it is exciting fun. To the revelers it is an opportunity to repeat all the nice things Rudyard Kipling has been saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...
...Yorkshire Likes Pluck." As a matter of fact, Scot MacDonald was by no means near the end. Laborite M. P.'s who had deserted him fortnight ago were beginning to feel sheepish. Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic. The Downing Street mailbag was stuffed with telegrams and letters of support, not a few from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee...
...successful day for les Caviglioli. From the Grand Hotel they went on to the Continental, where they collected $200. They then called at the Hotel Costa (stopping en route to pluck $120 from the owner of a seaside villa) and demanded $160. The Costa's proprietor did not have that much in his till, but he helped the Cavigliolis collect it from the guests. By now it was getting late. Caviglioli & nephews retreated to the mountains but their luck still held. On the way back they met a party of motorists enjoying a basket picnic. The Cavigliolis collected watches...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...