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Word: peg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Errors of Comedy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Mind you I do not contend that a team can get out there and play catch all afternoon. Many an enemy outfit, with a fast and smart defense, will have you cating passes before quitting time if you can't do anything but peg to second base," the T. C. U. mentor writes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Coach Says Aerial Football Most Effective | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Man's Image | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry-go-round between the two U. S. fairs, Vandeburg went East to see Grover Whalen, impresario of the World of Tomorrow. As Vandeburg remembers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...about twelve hours. Seeing dawn from the rim of Fuji's long-dead crater is considered a sort of virtuously ecstatic act, like seeing a vision. Last week 13 disabled Japanese war veterans declared their intention of "demonstrating national spirit" by stumping up Mr. Fuji on their honorable peg legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Mr. Fuji | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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