Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...wedding, the London equivalent of the tabloid (and there is such a thing), publishes his criminal record. But Nina reveals a great heart, in spite of a petty social circle. The play discovers an appealing sincerity that stands on the brink of bleary sentimentality, leans over the edge to peek, but not to topple, into the lava below...
...President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee...
...Vancouver, B. C., the chef of the great transpacific liner, Empress of Asia, received a bulky package from an anxious Canadian messenger and bore it reverently to a special ice box. Inquisitive passengers who insisted on visiting the ship's kitchens were allowed a peek at the package as a special favor. Across it sprawled an address: "For the Tokyo Angling and Country Club, Tokyo, Japan...
...with a box of flowers for Mrs. Coolidge. The President entered his car, and the party?a procession of 15 automobiles?drove slowly through flag-draped streets, slowing down before schoolhouses where children lined up with flags, singing. Not having breakfasted, the President did not stop for a peek at the House of the Seven Gables...