Word: pegged
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dangerous duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...Yanagihashi district voted to adopt uniforms like those worn by waitresses in keeping with the national restraint; parents were prevented by law from selling their daughters to houses of prostitution "unless they have a justifiable reason for doing so." Girl cyclists were directed to wear "peg-topped, coverall type of trousers as the tendency of kimonos to part in the front runs counter to the spirit of the times since it quickens the pulses of delinquent youths strolling in the streets who often lose their heads at such sights...
...course of its existence, the Radio Theatre has aired 272 different shows, ranging from Peg O' My Heart to the Life of Louis Pasteur. As an aerial Pasteur, Paul Muni was so nervous that he couldn't face a mike until a messenger was sent to his home for a violin. After sawing quietly away for a few minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through...
Hitler was a favorite subject; 36 pictures of him made up a "Hitler Corner." Sylvia Asprey, 12, showed Hitler on a clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with...
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...