Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lenin's death. Two scientists last week assured the ikon-loving Russians: "We are convinced that Lenin's body will remain in its present state for hundreds of years." Lenin's place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin...
Died. Laurette Taylor, 62, one of the great-actresses of the U.S. stage, who rose to fame on pre-World War I Broadway as the lovable Irish Peg in her husband J. Hartley Manners' hit comedy Peg o' My Heart; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Manners' death in 1928, she went on what she herself called "the longest wake in history," then, after 13 years of comparative obscurity and bit parts, won acclaim in last year's The Glass Menagerie, for the best performance of 1945. "That just goes to show," said she, "that...
...wife and a secretary. He is pleased when people compare him to ex-Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, thinks "Pegler at his best is the best technical writer I ever read." But Ruark does not aim to get stuck to any tar-baby, like labor-baiting, Roosevelt-hating Peg...
...Fine Job." By now a Communist loudspeaker van had arrived. With astute awareness that the rioting would give the Government a solid peg to hang the Communists on, the loudspeaker pleaded in fatherly tone: "Comrades, you've done a fine job . . . but remember, your anger should be directed against the owners of this building, not the police. . . . Now, come along. ... Go home in an orderly, disciplined way, worthy of the dignity of the working man." Through the crowd went three or four Communists, saying soothingly: "Now steady, comrades, steady, keep your heads." Finally the demonstrators began to break...
...another column last week Pegler sought to expose F.D.R.'s capacity and taste in liquor. Wrote he: "The President drank Martinis ... a horror to all well-mannered drinkers." Peg erred. F.D.R. was an Old-Fashioned man. Apropos his own bottle habits, Pegler, like a small boy writing on a blackboard, once repeated, for an entire post-New Year's Day column, a pledge not to mix his drinks...