Word: pegged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John Hartley Manners, 58, famed playwright (Peg o' My Heart), husband of Actress Laurette Taylor, onetime leading man for famed Actress Lily Langtry, of Manhattan; after an operation; in Manhattan...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...most important stockholders of the Bethlehem Steel are its workmen. I never made a cent out of Bethlehem Steel. It's just been a labor of love and all I have tried to do is drive a peg to mark progress in human relations...
...James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...