Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with heavy, half-open red lips and a little girl's big, wide eyes and a kind of Hedy Lamarr hairdo. Two of her teeth had been knocked out in an automobile accident, but she was good enough to be a model for a while and even a peep-show dancer at the World's Fair...
...fact, so prosaic is the appearance of the edifice that, in looks, it has often been compared with a typical. New England shirt factory. In this instance, however, looks and name are deceiving, for within the four walls of that structure are enough "finests" to phase the most blatant, peep show touter. Who would guess, for example, that there are more dead queens residing in that Museum than there are live ones in Europe today...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
Last week the Logan prize went to a piece of sculpture, Kneeling Women by Abbott Lawrence Pattison, now in the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Chicago. There was not a peep from Mrs. Logan. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who puts on the yearly show of Chicago's artists, breathed a sigh of relief...
...Board has loudly upheld employers' right to freedom of speech. But the effect of many of the board's decisions has been to convince employers that they cannot actually speak out. Tiptoeing around in the threatening shadows of the act, many a boss has been scared to peep...