Word: gumption
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...Kelland's stories fall into two general classes: 1) action-filled mystery dramas with big-city atmosphere, 2) more leisurely period pieces, as often as not in Western settings. But the Kelland hero, whether he wears chaps, galluses, or a Brooks Brothers suit, is always a man of gumption and industry. His heroine, similarly, is spunky and assertive, but she always turns out to be loving and feminine once the hero has tamed...
Decrying the lack of "guts and gumption" in the House unique in Harvard athletic circles, Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 yesterday hammered a tersely-worded statement on the Lowell bulletin board...
...Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting his daughter Jean marry one because he figures no "petered-out American" has the gumption to support her. He knows that his wife Rosa is regularly making love to a younger man out in the woods, but he puts up with it as long as she does the housework...
Pray that these lawmakers will have the good sense, then the gumption, to turn down ever mounting school demands. The greatest symbol educators could erect--which they won't erect--is to revive, in the class rooms, not secular panaceas, but a boundless faith...
Waal sir, an reckin that in yore part of the country, ef'n ya hain't got the gumption to check on whuther a story is true or not, ya jest run an eddytorial saying ya don't believe it. Ah don't know how yer moonshine indestry compares with ourn up here, but ah'd bet we'uns could teach ya a thing or two about jurnyalism-Eddy...