Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
...Chicago's huge Palmer House one day last fortnight, 50 businessmen attending the annual convention of their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done...
This protest [Julia M. Peck's letter, TIME, May 8: "I am disgusted. ... On p. 21 (TIME, April 17) you speak of Mrs. Roosevelt . . , whom we all respect and admire, as 'long-legged.' I am ashamed of you."-ED.] amazes me! I'm a sincere admirer of our admirable First Lady, who is exactly my height. I've always been vain of my long legs, pleased & flattered to hear them so referred...
Jessie Matthews, colts, and other cute people have long legs. What can Miss Peck be thinking of, to consider the expression disgusting, and an uncomplimentary slur...
...good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department and the White House...