Word: pegged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States for your subscribers that will be news. Until then please stop your puffing. I have listed below what I consider the ten biggest men in the country, and I'll bet not one of them subscribes to TIME. Look below and take yourselves down a peg. Here...
Here a minor variation makes another play. The parents are an obstacle, for they make matters too easy. They fairly dote on the young man. One would think it was they who were marrying Tommy, and before they are through they are almost left to do it. Marie, or Peg Entwistle, is the harrassed young lady, who almost tosses over her true love, who will some day inherit the town bank, for an automobile salesman, and a roadster existence...
...audience at the Park, most of whom never saw the inside of the Repertory, loved Peg almost as much as her nursery mates at the Repertory used to, which would seem to assure Miss Entwistle of a long career and a merry one, with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...
Until the last act it scarcely seems possible that that other promising juvenile." William Janney, who takes the hurdles as Tommy, can be compared to his teammate, Peg. But in the last act he stages a Jack Dalton, and saves the cLeeild, with an excellent performance as Tommy-When-Drunk, and that though he is sober as Andrew Volstead...
...Tommy" is about as sweet, simple and girlish as a graduate of the Skowhegan Female Seminary, and its success in New York seems assured. Before it changes its name again for Broadway consumption, and you lose sight of Peg go and see the reason for the Harvard attendance at the Repertory last year...