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This was obvious preparation for a postwar drive to get U. S. gold for Germany. If Dr. Funk could really peg all European currencies to a Reichsmark "work dollar," he could fix the value of labor in all countries that had to trade with him, would have perfected a streamlined form of international slavery. But though he has demonstrated that Nazi collectivism can wage war, he has yet to show it will work in peace. Gold, he granted, would still have a use in settling international balances. But nations use gold primarily because it is prized by individuals. Dr. Funk...
...excellent and resourceful lies, but they lack conviviality. This could never be said of the stories of F. Dogbody, Surgeon, late of His Majesty's Navy, who passed his evenings after 1817 in the Cheerful Tortoise, Will Tunn Prop., Portsmouth. Doctor Dogbody's stories concerning his peg leg and how he acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody ever caught him out, except in the trifling detail...
Cribbage (played with cards and reckoned on a peg board) was invented by Britain's Sir John Suckling, a 17th-century gambler. He got the idea from an ancient English game called Noddy, mixed the proportions of luck (drawing cards) and skill (playing them) so piquantly that the game appealed to every Englishman's taste, soon became synonymous with a cozy fireside and a little something simmering on the hob. When English colonists went to the U. S., cribbage went along, too, sprouted wherever there were two people, a fireside and a long winter evening...
William T. Jr., Thomas and Howard ("Bill," "Tony" & "Peg"), he stepped production up to 541 planes in 1936, turned in the company's first net profit-$9,706. Then catastrophe struck...
...Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...