Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after the Civil War an undersized, red-headed youngster, son of a local newspaper editor and Confederate veteran, used to be known around Lynchburg, Va. as "Pluck" because, with eyes blacked and nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the Senate paid handsome tribute to "Pluck," now a small hawk-nosed Senator of 75. By a vote of 54-to-9 it passed his bill to reform the national banking system and tighten up loose screws in the Federal Reserve machine...
...years Senator Carter ("Pluck") Glass of Virginia worked to perfect his measure as a companion-piece to the Federal Reserve Act which he pushed through the House of Representatives 20 years ago. He had to battle a bankers' lobby dead set against further Federal restrictions. He had to overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper...
President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
Grubbing around among the oratorical remains of the 1932 campaign for flavor and facts, future historians are likely to pluck out and re-examine as the most authentic and complete summation of the Democratic case last week's radio speech by Virginia's testy little Senator Carter Glass. The 74-year-old Lynchburg publisher got out of a sick bed to answer President Hoover's stump speeches. Senator Glass is a political snapping turtle but no Republican has dared call the "Father of the Federal Reserve" a "wild...
...wisdom, begins to need it all for herself when Professor Vinstead falls in love with her. The t'ao pings capture the picnic party. For a few hours it looks as if all love-affairs were over. Thanks to Mrs. LeRoy's leonine nerve and to peripatetic British pluck, the party is rescued. Derek gets Judith; Mrs. LeRoy and the professor nobly part; Annette, because she is silly and American, incapable of growing up, dies of a sunstroke...