Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many highly-paid publishing minds engaged in the picture magazine business, someone was certain to see the funny possibilities in the current trend. Last week former Fawcett Publications Business Manager William Cotton did just that, put on newsstands mainly in the Midwest 200,000 copies of a 10? bimonthly, Peek-A Look at Life. In Peek Publisher Cotton, now eastern representative of Illinois' Kable Bros. Co., printers, does a picture Ballyhoo of LIFE in "Peek Along America's News Front." Sample caption: "Larry (Tarzan) Crabbe holds Betty Grable up on the Paramount lot so the cameraman...
...game was good from a Harvard viewpoint. In that year the women were as beautiful as ever and besides they were beginning to wear skirts that were not quite so long and from which toes and hints of an ankle were beginning to peek. In Europe there was some sort of a war going on, and people were being killed, and reports from Walter Hines Pages said that things were in pretty nasty shape over there, but in this country everything was all right...
...week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
...laggard in prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
Britons who want a peek into how their new Cabinet works may have to wait 30 or 50 years for its members to write their memoirs, but last week John Bull had a foretaste in London's independent, chatty Sunday Referee...