Word: peg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco...
Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes...
...wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons and waited for the cannon-shot that would start them working...
...first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary to attach great importance to the actions of those we love. We need...
...game on ice. G. A. Donaldson singled to right and E. L. Sims '31, followed with a similar blow while Donaldson advanced to second. Both these men scored when H. L. Huxtable '30 singled to left, and pulled up at the third sack as the schoolboy catcher muffed the peg from the field. Davis punched a timely blow to left, scoring Huxtable, and then stole second. P. A. Ketchum '31 ended the inning with a grounder to the key stone sack...