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...singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front was the best-looking broad of them all doing bumps and boy, was she built! . . . Yes, sir, that was Persia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People Going Crazy | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...records for themselves and carried on. Avery proudly told newsmen: "I am going to work daily, unless they throw me out bodily. I am still running this place." But by week's end Avery had become an executive with no work to do, reduced to playing peekaboo with the photographers. He spent his days in his office conferring with company lawyers, but General Byron ran Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Army's Here Again | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...when Veronica blows herself up along with a messy pile of Japs, you forget that she's the babe with the "peekaboo bang" and get a little respect for the American female. About Paulette Goddard: well, she's good too, except now it's a sure bet that Hollywood can't put out a single picture without at least one sheer black nightie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

...Some of them wear wrong clothes: forbidden peekaboo sweaters (bare at the waist) or transparent blouses. Many of them won't wear safe work suits, designed to prevent accidents. Most of them now wear slacks, but rebel at keeping their hair covered. Occasionally one gets scalped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Sex in the Factory | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Duchess' Tooth | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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