Word: pegs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl, and the girl loves me, and yet I can't marry her because her parents want me to," cries Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...
...George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears to this day a peg leg; loses 1 in. of his 5-ft.-6-in. stature. He then tried teaching school, found it dull; managed a baseball team, found it unremunerative; worked as clerk in the Secretary of State's office in Springfield (the only political office he has ever held). He had tasted...
...franc slumped to 37 to the dollar. The cost of living was announced as having risen 10% in France within two months. Finance Minister Péret, disheartened at his failure to peg the franc, resigned. Deputies of the Right, theoretically foes of Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could...
...London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ the $100,000,000 Morgan loan, floated in 1924 (TIME, March 24, 1924), to "peg" the franc at something like its value in the immediate past?roughly between...
Under these handicaps peg in the role of the young woman securely, but none too satisfactorily, married played up and played the game. It was all very English, you know, what with "rippings" and talk of "funking it" interjected here and there, but the entire cast were its best Oxonian accent with never a quiver...