Word: plucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of trench foot. Dr. Robertson promised to write the story of their adventure, the profits to go, first, for Scadding's care, second, to the Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...
...Just as tea dumped in Boston harbor by our sturdy ancestors proclaimed the revolt against unjust taxes, so pluck can free the present generation from unfair taxation of one group of citizens for the benefit of another." In Washington Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of the socialite Representative from swank Long Island, declared she would plant potatoes on the lawn in front of her house at 1801 F Street, where "Secretary Wallace will be sure to see them...
...look of the bird there were several others who had obeyed that impulse. I saw another woman pluck one before I did. Mine was only half a feather and it cost me 30s., but it was worth...
...single one of you any farther than I could throw a bull by the tail. If you think you have an inch of ground to stand on, cut out the shadow-boxing and get this case before the U. S. Supreme Court. I'll wager it will pluck your FDIC so close that, in comparison to its nudity, Hugh Johnson's defeathered Blue Eagle would look as if it were all dressed up in a raccoon coat...
...thick caps British Columbia's Mt. Robson, tallest (12,292 ft.) of the Canadian Rockies. From the ice cap's edge huge fragments occasionally break off and start avalanches. A Bostonian named Henry S. Hall and his Swiss guide had the pluck to defy this danger, the luck to escape it, were last week picking their way down from Mt. Robson's glittering summit...