Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
...Verdun in World War I. Ernie's mother keeps a secondhand furniture store, lends money and receives stolen goods on the side. Ernie is apprentice to a lithographer, is fired for laziness and ineptitude, becomes a hanger-out at the Fun Fair, a penny arcade replete with peep shows, pinball games, shooting gallery and a change girl named Ada -"a proper, right, straight up smasher of a bride" with yellow hair, red fingernails and a close-fitting sweater...
...orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap in the Fairgrounds tent while Joe Bailey held an audience spellbound...
...Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward, once an important Al Capone domain...
...door which leads to a blank tunnel beneath the second floor, the secret stairway which is shown on the House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...