Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...British Isles on foot, mostly in the teeth of wind-whipped rains. One Scottish detachment had a bagpiper who mournfully skirled the subversive "Internationale." Miners from the boarded-up coal pits of Wales, shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon as they reached the greensward, exerted themselves no further than to join...
...took the stump in his own behalf. As he crossed the line into his native Iowa, he thawed to the welcome of friends, recalled the old swimming hole of his childhood, greeted his old schoolmarm (see p. 29). As he journeyed back to Washington he lashed out with new spunk and spirit at his opponents...