Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close cooperation" of Paku Buwono XII, the Susuhunan ("Nail from Which the Universe Is Suspended") of Surakarta. The Susuhunan is a shy little Dutcheducated, sport-loving princeling who meekly permitted himself to be called "Comrade" during the republic. The Dutch would have to find stronger nails on which to peg their rule...
...raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...
...worn clapboard cabin, the 113-year-old black body of Uncle Row Adams lay very still beneath the patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when...
Billed as a "Blind Date" program, the show opened with "Indian Love Call" and featured completely unrehearsed lines as the boys tried to get dates with the girls. One man got all the breaks. Peg Wishard '52 competed successfully against Joanne Irving '52, Radcliffe, for a date with William Raney...
...Real Culprits. The case for support was made before the American Bankers Association last week in Detroit by its former president, Frank C. Rathje, of Chicago's Mutual National Bank. Dropping the peg, he said, might well "provoke a storm." The real inflationary culprits, charged Rathje, were not the banks, but the non-bank lending agencies, primarily the insurance companies...