Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a young Japanese named Furoda made up his mind that he had been extraordinarily insulted. Japanese of the Old School understood, sympathized. They were glad that at least one young man had the spunk to consider himself insulted by the frequent radical utterances of notorious Senji Yamamoto, loud-mouthed Farmer-Labor member of the Imperial Diet. ex-Canadian dishwasher, publisher of The Japanese Birth Control Review...
...maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality...
...does now wish in any way to disturb her, or attempt to displace her. On the contrary our attitude is friendly, and we sincerely wish the Advocate success in the straight and narrow path which she has had, the courage to choose. Its editors have shown spunk and sand by sticking to her well known and traditional standards of high literary merit...