Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenn., watched the affairs of Dean Israel Harding Noe of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, whose wife sued him for di-vorce last February because he believes that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control" (TIME, May n). Last week Memphis was given another sympathetic, curious peep into his private life, his checkbook and his house in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Noe's amended charges included cruelty, extravagance and desertion as well as coldness. In an amended answer to her bill, Dean Noe replied in great detail. He had not been cruel, nor, as she charged...
Another psychoanalytic peep at Lincoln: "Lincoln was a very aggressive person, and hence one would expect him to be also sexually aggressive. According to Herndon, Mr. Lincoln had a strong passion for women. And yet, much to his credit, he lived a pure and virtuous life...
...Another peep: "What is very peculiar about Lincoln's stories and jokes, his own and those he appropriated from others, is the fact that many, if not most, are of an aggressive or algolagnic nature, treating of pain, suffering and death, and that a great many of them were so frankly sexual as to be classed as obscene...
...threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep through the door, the Siamese ruler left for Baltimore to have a cataract on his eye looked after...
...first time in his life Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi posed last week for the talkies. "Louder, Mr. Gandhi! Louder please" wailed the talkie men. Lisped the Mahatma: "If I go to America I should like to travel not as a freak or object of curiosity in a penny peep show." Ordeal over, St. Gandhi shuddered: "It was torture, torture...