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When Spokesman Smith marched in before the seven R. F. C. directors, out in the corridor gathered dozens of chattering clerks, stenographers, typists and underlings, to glimpse the "Happy Warrior." In the door they found a peek-hole through which they watched him pound the board table, wave his cigar, shake his greying head. Cried Al Smith angrily: "The R.F.C. can act like a suspicious banker with two glass eyes or it can take up its social responsibilities and put men to work...
...William Peek Elwell...
...each contestant, the number of tricks taken by each team. The scoreboard was out of the players' sight; but they did not need to see it. Sniggers and snorts from the audience, when someone played the wrong card or tried to finesse, were as explanatory as a peek at an opponent's hand. Observers wondered whether, by imposing strict rules of silence on spectators, or by enclosing the players in soundproof booths, bridge could be made into an indoor spectacle, like prize fighting, wrestling, billiards...
Though you might suspect Author Crawshay-Williams' motive in inviting you to peek through the keyholes of all these bedrooms, the sights he shows you are less salacious than salutary; they are by turns humorous, pathetic, depressing, always recognizably human scenes...
...porter did not retreat. On tiptoe he approached Dr. Wollaston's door, listened, heard not a sound, then took heart to peek round the jamb at a dreadful scene. Shot through the heart, the tutor lay crumpled in a chair. Shot through the head, Pupil Potts sprawled dying on the carpet, a pistol near his right hand...