Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through "magic spectacles...
...night Monica's governess happened to peep into the darkened nursery. She stifled a scream and fainted dead away. Something "disjointed, hoppety, hideous" was stalking across Monica...
Elsewhere the talents of Victor Moore, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Lena Home peep through the shuffle and bustle. The whole is well-buttressed, as the Master would surely have it, with the Technicolored verities of the half-naked female form...
Added Editor Canham, whose Monitor never stoops to peep: "Newspapers . . . assume, correctly, that the public likes to read this sort of thing. But is that the final criterion? Or is it even a correct long-range analysis of the profit motive? Will not this continual nursing of demagogic power in the hands of a few keyhole columnists react against newspapers in the long...
...Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...