Word: peepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
Rosamond Marshall, best-selling peeper into milady's chamber (Duchess Hotspur), explained why women were outdoing men in writing best-sellers about bedrooms. "Men are too inhibited,'' said she. "They cannot write a good book dealing with sex without getting themselves in it. They are, to put it bluntly, too muscle-bound...
...most fertile of U.S. inventors startled his friends last week with an unusual device: an electronic keyhole peeper to eliminate stooping. It offered comfortable tompeeping complete with eavesdropping and a permanent record on film...
...Peeper. In Brockton, Mass., the dog-catcher got a complaint from a woman that a puppy had been peeking in her window every night...
...months ago The New Yorker delivered to its 152,777 subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many...