Word: pegs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Robert Keith, actor, author of The Tightwad (TIME, April 25); to Peg Entwistle, ingenue actress; at Port Chester, N. Y., after a four-day courtship...
...standards in the high jump and pole vault. The new standards required by the I. C. A. A. A. A. permit the crossbar to fall off either backward or forward, and the bar rests on a support 1 1-2 inches by 2 3-8 inches, instead of a peg...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). Originally romantic, the Crusoe theme has passed through many literary phases and now emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting...
...coat the whole with a lovable uncle who pets the cat and helps along the matrimony. When Broadway's last niece and nephew have chortled with childish glee over Tomany, it will probably be seized upon by all the stock companies throughout the land. Juvenile William Janney, Ingenue Peg Entwistle, Character Actors Lloyd Neal and Sidney Toler do well...
...franc appreciated to 25 to the dollar last week, its highest since 1925, a rise of 20% in gold value since November. Premier Poincaré thereupon decided to peg the franc against further rise or decline. By his order the Bank France announced that until further notice it would buy or sell any number of francs at 25 to the dollar. Instantly speculation in the franc ceased. Frenchmen sighed with relief for a further rapid rise would have raised the gold price of French goods so much that French exporters would have been ruined...