Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey beards today still remember "Little Egypt" (Frieda Mahzar) and her hootchy-kootchy dance when they have forgotten everything about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial in 1926 was a dismal failure largely be cause it put patriotism ahead of peep shows...
When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...
...Like peep shows, short stories may give a knothole glimpse of real life or a nickel's worth of artifice. Authors Ben Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...Boyle think she takes a perverse, malicious interest in abnormal people, and most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even her slyest grotesques are recognizably, though often cruelly, human. Some of them...
Tsar. To bigwigs in the pin-game industry, official antagonism is nothing new. For the past year, pin-game operators all over the U. S. have been intermittently assailed by the authorities. Since many of them got into the industry from the peep-show or slot-machine fields, they are at no loss to discover means of dealing with such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball...