Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroines of Thirteen Women who evades the suicide predicted for her in the picture is Hazel (Peg Entwhistle). In Hollywood last month. Peg Entwhistle committed suicide by jumping from a huge illuminated sign...
Without fuss & feathers, a lean, wiry figure walked into the White House last week, hung his hat up on a peg to which it was accustomed and went quietly to work in the office next to President Hoover's. It was Edward T. ("Ted") Clark, longtime confidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge. Unannounced, Theodore ("Ted") Joslin, the President's No. 1 secretary, had departed overnight for an indefinite vacation and Ted Clark had been called in to substitute. President Hoover could hardly have gotten a better man to help him through the ardors of the campaign...
...very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked feet in their peg-bottom sandals look like cloven hooves...
Minnow Rawls had one more surprise left. She clambered onto the 10-ft. springboard, began manipulating her tiny sunburnt person toward the water as though she were impersonating the knife in a game of mumblety-peg. A brilliant half-gaynor helped her get the points she needed to win the event, 78.64 to 77.75, from goldilocked Georgia Coleman, U. S. diving champion since...
...Warder lock, which Master Courtney scorns, consists essentially of a solid bolt with a notch or peg on its stem. The key engages the notch or peg and thus slides the bolt to or fro. Almost anything which can pass through the keyhole can throw this simple lock. To impede such easy passage a trifle, locksmiths sometimes notch the keyhole. Ordinarily only keys with grooved bits which fit the notches can get through such keyholes...