Word: pegged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Dewey. As a sailor Dewey was vigorous, commanding, resourceful. As a politician he was a fumbling schemer. Mr. Dibble uses him as a peg for a searching criticism of the whole conduct of the war in the Philippines-its disingenuous policies, double-faced dealings with natives and foreign countries, masked imperialism, hidden atrocities by and upon the invading army...
Meditate upon heroes. The day is easily recalled when Francis X. Bushman was the brightest star of evening. He was the squarejawed, peg-top hero who resembled models of elegance of the Sears-Roebuck Co. Nowadays it is Rodolph Valentino, his fame somewhat muddied of late, but still Rodolph...
...Cyril Burt president of the psychology section, advanced the thesis that just as there is a certain minimum intelligence required for the successful performance of any occupation, so there may also be a maximum intelligence, beyond which waste arises in forcing too large a peg into too small a hole...
...canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint. An experiment comprising much diverting and edifying matter worthy the studious attention of all Johnsonians...
Within the last few weeks, there have been four new plays without a "happy ending." There was, for example, A Square Peg. The maltreated husband therein killed himself just before taking his final curtain call, but that was not the trag-edy of the piece. The tragic climax came when he was denied the grateful haven of a jail sentence. It was not an inspiring catastrophe. One hardly felt toward Mr. Huckins as toward a Lucifer, shouting defiance from the overheated shade of the Inferno...