Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol. He made a hit when instead of using his Congressional frank to save money, he mailed out campaign literature marked "postage paid." The primary race is considered nip & tuck. Impartial House observers rate him thus: An able, experienced legislator above the average in political pluck and national outlook; a conservative House leader who wins wide personal applause even in a losing fight; a Georgian with the best political tradition of his State in his blood whose legislative enterprise and- parliamentary knowledge fully qualify him for promotion to the Senate. His term expires March 3,1933.-ED. Satevepost...
Fishermen's Pluck...
...prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt in the stomach. Finally Londos whirled De Vito around his head in an "airplane spin," threw him down with...
...picture. Lewis Stone, one of our favorites, takes the part of the head of the German secret agents, yet he is never permitted to step beyond the portals of a drab office room. Lionel Barrymore, one of Hollywood's foremost character actors has little opportunity to do more than pluck nervously at his moustache...
...Hageman has played fine football this fall," was the comment of Coach E. L. Casey '19, who will continue his work as Harvard's football mentor next year, "and I think he will make a fine captain, for he has shown ability and pluck throughout, a difficult season." It was Hageman who caught a long pass from Wood and carried the ball over the goal line to score the winning touchdown in the last minutes of the Dartmouth game, and earlier, in the first half, by blocking a Dartmouth try-for-point kick, he left open for Harvard a final...