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Word: peeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good program, the management has added three new Disney cartoons, including "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood." Among other things, it shows Katherine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep, and should certainly not be missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...days of their youth. Among the 700-odd items assembled and installed by old Bauhausler Herbert Bayer were photographs of their first, free, jazz age capers as Bauhaus students in Weimar in the early '20s. About the only exhibits that seemed thoroughly dated were these and an elaborate peep show of ballet figures by Oskar Schlemmer, heavily fantastic, machine-obsessed, dusty and dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Historic A B Cs | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...give them an idea of its peculiar properties, he described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarets) as an experiment. He crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. When the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, flew around the world seven times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Description | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...first issue shows a hypnotized man with his lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Click | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...hard to say just how well Edgar John Bergren, now Bergen, would do with the Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Bergen Do With Egypt's Sphinx? | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

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