Word: peeked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LATER YEARS, when Sir Winston was completing his Great Man Act by flashing V. signs to the press at St. Tropes, he saw The Guns of Nevarone and, apparently impressed by Gregory Peek's shenanigans, summoned its writes producer Carl Foreman. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided. Foreman's script of Young Winston is loosely based on Churchill's My Early Life, which in turn is loosely based on the author's career until age twenty-eight...
...Valachi, it will be recalled, was a Brooklyn hood of the lower echelon who sang arias for the McClellan Committee in the fall of 1963, giving the general public its first peek into the intricacies of the Cosa Nostra. Peter Maas's bestselling Valachi Papers was based largely on the testimony, and the movie, if we are to believe the screen credits, is based upon Maas's book, although it could just as easily have been lifted from Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers Textbook. The entire cast, in fact, look as if they were drawn by Chester Gould...
...familiar one to readers of D.H. Lawrence. On trial in the Old Bailey was a handsome Irishman named Maurice O'Regan, 33, charged with forging three checks to a total of $34,400. Maurice had been butler, chauffeur, valet, handyman and cook to Sir Francis Henry Grenville Peek, 56, fourth baronet of Rousdon. But with raven-haired, Jamaica-born Lady Caroline Peek, 37, the testimony revealed, Maurice's services had gone considerably further...
Part of the trouble was that Sir Francis (family crest, according to Debrett's, "two hazel nuts slipped proper"; family motto, "Le Maitre Vient") frequently went on extended trips attending to his real estate business. That left Lady Peek alone with the butler, Maurice, who was paid only $36 a week, testified that Lady Peek began giving him money "to buy shirts...
Considerably embarrassed, Lady Peek took the stand to deny categorically all of Maurice's statements. She insisted that the blank checks were meant to pay household bills. But her performance was less than convincing, and the judge instructed the all-male jury that her evidence was "not to be relied on." With that the jurors after 65 minutes declared Maurice not guilty, and the court apologized for the eight months he had been held in jail. "So much for British aristocracy," huffed the butler as he left court. "I'm finished with them." Gamekeeper Mellors...