Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peg O' My Heart
After 34 years, during which Peg had been done wrong by innumerable tenors, she was once again deep in the U.S. heart and high on the hit parade. Last week, for the second week, the late Fred Fisher's 1913 sentimental tune was the nation's jukebox favorite. Its revival had started with the Harmonicats, a Midwest mouth-organ trio, who recorded it, and a Chicago disc jockey named Eddie Hubbard, who plugged their recording into popularity...
...Peg O' My Heart was grown in the same fertile Tin Pan Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
...fill the hole left by Spruille Braden, the President this week picked a different sort of peg: veteran Career Diplomat Norman Armour, who retired in 1945 after 30 years of able service that took him from Leningrad to Madrid. Careerman Armour was slated to take over a new, expanded job as Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs...
Most of Author Brogan's essays feature historical figures, but, in the modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...