Word: peeked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
...Chicago, Gilva McClathie's wife haled him to court, sued for divorce. She said her husband sent her to the kitchen every morning, then, with admonitions of "Don't peek," hid her daily 75? allowance somewhere in another room. Mrs. McClathie's complaint was that some days she could not find the money, went hungry...
...centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...
Climax of the entertainment was some happy antics by two dozen of Cineman Mayer's showgirls in peek-a-boo costumes. Mr. Churchill peeked...
...debutantes, peeresses, diplomats and their wives to Her Majesty's first Court of the season. Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show, and for three hours as the cars waited in line they made the most of it with pointed umbrellas and still more pointed...