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Word: peeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apart. The Bridges' daughter used to enjoy taking my aunt's dog, Difo, for walks, but my aunt didn't know the girl's last name. Once in her presence she raked that terrible Harry Bridges over the coals but the child did not even peep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Winterland, a big skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marine Circus | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...This peep into Stalin's mind broadened as the Dictator described "Capitalism, Trotskyism and the conceit of members of the Communist Party" as "the three great enemies of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Davies & Bolshies | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This may or may not have been the real "lowdown," but it made interesting reading and is typical of French finesse in acquiring the goodwill of top-grade foreign correspondents by giving them a peep to ease their heroic curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: High-Grade Lowdown | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout it's over my dead body." Eunice's mother-a grandmother at 33 -explained that a neighboring family had "put the peep" on. her 16-year-old son Herbie who wished to marry Clarey Johns, 24, that "Charlie was afeered we would do the same on Eunice." But, said she, "This thing is all right with God. I know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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