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Word: peeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, in a blaze of glory, the day at court closes, and once again you are permitted to peep into a Queen's boudoir. Once again the ladies of the Court dance attendance, and while the curtain descends, Her Royal Highness slowly sinks to slumber. It's a touching scene, so leave early if you are easily moved to tears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Headed Queen Features in Eighty-First Annual Pudding Riot--Chorus is Sylph-Like | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

...intensely. Certainly there is a contagious thrill to newspaper work quite as keen on the Crimson as on any metropolitan. daily. One has the run of seeing events all meetings people at fret traid or, as Philip Gibbs has expressed it, of sitting in a front seat at the peep show of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BEGINS TWO 1930 COMPETITIONS | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...them continued to peep their chubby infant granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth,* famed as "Baby Betty." A nurse held her up at the window of her nursery in Buckingham Palace, and she blinked sleepily, sucking her thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baby Betty | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Come and look quick. The show will soon shut down for a year. Delectable slums; peep-shows of half-blind women and their broods basting mountainous piles of garments, making artificial flowers, beading gowns, and supported by charity. Take a good look before the curtain is drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Broadway-Exciting peep backstage at vaudevillians and villains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: List | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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