Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the paper looked into the case of the Renshaws, they were doing well again. Wallaces' Farmer ("Henry A. Wallace, Editor, on leave of absence as Secretary of Agriculture") noted with pleasure that a Government loan plus plenty of pluck had enabled Mr. Renshaw to have his cancer treated, buy more livestock, retrieve his farm. "The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we have tried to make the best of what we have," said Mrs. Renshaw...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
...that the music of Bach and Mozart is "pluck-a-pluck" when played on the instruments for which it was written is as pointless as to say that of Liszt is "crash-a-crash." The whole article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...packed to its heavy oak doors. What drew this throng was no thunder-rousing maestro or pudding-fed diva, but a pair of pale, genteel young men who plunked softly on 18th-Century-model harpsichords. Before a silver backdrop, gently lit by amber lights, they joined in deft pluck-a-pluck duets by Mozart and Bach. Occasionally they were joined by two lush lady harpsichordists in 18th-Century lace and velveteen. To all this harpsichordery their audience listened reverently, applauded with loud smacks. For they were listening to the No. 1 harpsichord team of the U. S.: Chicago...
Italy. The mock battle ended in a great victory. The 50,000 troops reviewed at Turin were rhapsodized as "the steel vanguard of a nation in arms which intends to pluck victory in the light...