Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone was madly trading clothes. You can't wear something your date has seen on such a big weekend Mary hacked off a green formal so that she could have that new-look length. And little Peg borrowed a skirt a size too large so that it would be long enough. Sally asked me if she could borrow my formal which is the kind you can wear without pressing...
...visit to the White House, Campbell told President Truman that he was withholding all of his current crop-some 610,000 bushels-because he wanted to get as much as he could for it. One way to get farmers to sell, he said, was for the Government to peg the price of wheat at about $3.50 a bushel, some 50? above the current price. The President said he didn't blame Campbell for holding on to his wheat...
...four: That's My Desire (1931), Peg O' My Heart (1913), I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1909), When You Were Sweet Sixteen...
...Fred Fisher, the composer of the current hit song Peg O' My Heart [TIME, July 7]. ... In view of your ever-conscientious attempts to report the pertinent facts as honestly as possible, it would seem important to clear up the rather glaring m's-statement "Sick and no longer able to turn out hit tunes, he hanged himself five years ago." At the time when he was no longer supposed to be able to turn out hit tunes, his song Whispering Grass was having great success in this country, later becoming a World War II hit in Great...
People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned...