Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a peg-legged, 73-year-old union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...
...Peg-legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting...
Handicapped by the absence of Harvey Ross, ace 118-pound wrestler, Crimson lightweights have had to move down a peg, Petronik taking Ach's place in the 126-pound class. Still bitter over the 23-11 defeat which they suffered at Princeton's hands last Saturday, the matmen hope to make a comeback by crushing Navy, recently fattened out by Penn State...
...north country inhabitants that have cut the wood off their slopes--except the stumps--and who pray for snow with which ton lure the city slickers makes it doubtful. In its position in the national economy skiing may well be held a phenomenon comparable to mah jong, mumbledy-peg, or peewee golf...
...Essai Surréaliste by famed Salvador Dali, showing a vast dark cypress tree rising against an evening sky from which grows a half-opened book transfixed by a peg on which droops one of Artist Dali's limp watches...