Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punch my nose and break me in two for the Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard any more blasphemous or profane language than he used to me." ¶ "Not a peep!" declared Pennsylvania's insurgent Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot when asked to tell how he was going to vote. Governor Pinchot dismissed a director of relief at Wilkes-Barre when he caught him franking out food orders in U. S. Department of Labor envelopes containing a picture of President Hoover...
...Drake Hotel one evening last week sat a nude young woman of considerable charm, safe behind a barrier of chicken wire. For $1 anyone could go in, sit behind a drawing board for ten minutes and try or pretend to sketch her. Elsewhere in the Drake that evening were peep shows, slot machines, bars, roulette tables, smart shops, fortune telling booths, a gangplank and reproduction of one side of the lie de France. Milling around in costumes that tried earnestly to look bohemian were 2,500 Chicago socialites and celebrities. Fresh from welcoming Governor Roosevelt to town, Mayor Anton Joseph...
Last week not one censorious peep came from the nation's reformers when from Bernarr Macfadden's publishing house issued a magazine containing twelve photographic portraits in the nude. The subjects were cute, provocative, but not in the usual Macfadden mode. They were all infants. Announced two months ago (TIME, July 25), Mr. Macfadden's new monthly magazine Babies Just Babies was out, edited by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt assisted by her daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall...
...free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
Scarcely a peep of protest came from the unions. Most of their members were now gladly working for whatever they could get, wherever they could get it. With so many jobless a strike, they realized, would be the emptiest of empty gestures...