Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Third of Newport estates to be given to a Catholic order, Stoneleigh was first prepared for its use the year Mrs. Post was cured. Then its low walls were raised so high that the curious could not peek over. Last summer, the Father General of the Carmelite Order visited in Stoneleigh, probably was told the estate would pass into his jurisdiction...
...press was then given a peek at the President's census return. He called himself Herbert Hoover, omitting Clark. He said he "occupied" the White House, neither owning nor renting it. He gave his occupation as "engineer...