Word: plunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longest name on the British Navy list is that of Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. His friends call him "Old Plunk." In 1914, when he was a young Commander, he accompanied Rear-Admiral (later Admiral of the Fleet, Earl) Beatty on a military mission to the late Tsar Nicholas II-as a step in desperate preparation for World War I, which broke out a few weeks later. Last week, now one of Britain's wisest naval strategists, he set out for Moscow again-in a desperate effort to stave off World...
...British mission left London, Old Plunk was gay. He wore in his buttonhole-"for optimism"-a red carnation and a wee sprig of heather. Less light-hearted was Lieut. Baskervyle Glegg, whose job it was to take care of such military secrets as have so far escaped espionage. Lieutenant Glegg toted his responsibility in a steel dispatch case fastened to his wrist by a three-foot chain. Lieutenant Glegg was heavy of heart because he was, handcuffed to the future of Europe...
...bear arms against such an emergency. One morning last week two gunmen entered Midland's Chemical State Savings Bank. The bank cashier ran to the bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing, started to run up the street. Plunk! Another bullet struck one of them in the shoulder. Plunk! One of the bandits fell dead...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
...goods house. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Levi, then 26, was no patriotic fool. While the blood of other men his age ran red from Bull Run to Appomattox he grew so rich selling goods to the Government that in 1865 he was able to plunk $130,000 alongside Marshall Field's $160,000 to buy partnerships in the dry-goods business that became Field, Leiter & Co. and eventually Marshall Field...