Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blame the draft if you want to. Say that Hollywood is a bad influence; that playwrights are still thinking in terms of the '30's; that the public prefers to be amused these days anyway. There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...
...have a pet theory too, and you can take it or leave it. The trouble with war drama, to put it somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff...
...General Mukhim, the commander on their sector of the Rzhev front. They supposed that General Mukhim had his orders from a man whom they seldom or never saw, whose name they almost never read in Red Star or Pravda, a man whom they all knew as the Liubimets (the pet, the favorite, the darling, the beloved) of the Red Army. But it was Engineer Sosnovkin, thin and unimpressive in his grey overcoat, who had to tell the men what General Zhukov, the Liubimets, now wanted of them...
...Pet peeve of the case system addict is the long, involved and ungrammatical sentences he sometimes encounters. Sometimes stretching out for half a page, repleter will dangling participles and non-parallelism, these cases have definite soporific effect on the student. This condition is primarily the result of war pressure, for there is such a tremendous turnover of cases that it is impossible to catch every error. Write-ups are usually read by members of the department and a special editing committee under Miss Norton, but some boners manager to slip through...
When a puncture wrecked one of his best tubes, Engineer John McGay decided it was time to try his pet idea-eliminate the tube and use the inflated casing alone. He told his repairman just how he thought it should be done. It worked. Since then, in cahoots with Victor F. Barnett, associate editor of the Tulsa Tribune, he has tirelessly preached his tubeless-tire recipe to everybody who would listen...