Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the new issue was to be floated (Feb. 3), Otis & Co. told him that K-F's stock should be "stabilized." Kaiser did not know what that meant. The underwriters, he said, explained: to keep the Curb price of the old stock steady, K-F ought to peg it by buying at a fixed price...
...Tributary can explain its sensitivity on those matters by pointing to what generally constitutes the program of a Little Theater. One example can be found weekly at Brattle Hall, where the actors can be seen reviving "Peg O' My Heart," "Dear Ruth," etc., to packed houses. Other good citizens, in other places about the country, tirelessly devote their free evenings to mouthing the lines of the Messrs. Kaufman, Hart, and others. It is therefore entirely understandable when the Trib gets its back up over being shoved into the Little Theater category...
...Round Peg. In Memphis, Dill Pickle quit his job in a grocery store and went back home to Rolling Fork, Miss...
Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
Winchell took his scolding without a word. Not so Pegler, who was still muttering last week. "The Enquirer may not know," said Peg in self-defense, "that, as a young reporter, I saw many statesmen, diplomats and soldiers in Europe. I have seen most of them since...