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Word: peeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

...monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it. But Victoria was lucky, Franz Joseph was not. Many of his misfortunes were due to foreign levies, but malice domestic caused his greatest sorrows. To those numerous U. S. readers who like to peek through the hedge at royalty, Bertita Harding's intimate narrative of Franzi and his wife Sisi will be as good a show as they could wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Franzi & Sisi | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...impassioned politicians now scarcely audible, the time is ripe for an honestly dispassionate analysis of Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Before the election any writing which so much as sniffed at political questions was rudely branded either wholly Democratic or purely Republican. Any work of scholarship which dared to peek around a political corner was immediately seized, and the blight of partisanship was forever stamped upon its cover. Republican voters road Republican pamphlets, and convinced Democrats smiled disdainfully at Herbert Hoover's while fetching a dollar for Secretary Wallace's "latest". Into this potpourri of citizens, now that the party quarantine...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

Woolly-headed Fatty Pfaff, in Arrowsmith, set out for his medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crammers | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...bitterly at odds with his brain-trust associates in 1933 was AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek that he rejected the services of AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, hired a Washington lawyer as his personal attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Peek Pique | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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