Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover that Bysshe (rhymes with pish) was just an "enchanted child...
...They asked for peep holes, but we will provide them with a plush side-walk club where they can keep a check on our work." Irving B. Parkhurst, assistant business manager in charge of Building and Grounds said yesterday...
Soundies is less like the peep shows of the penny arcades than it is like the cinema's onetime musical shorts-an illustrated recording, the first which commercially substitutes sound-on-film for discs...
Since, as one of Chicago's Mills brothers says, "the idea is older than God," the Mills-Roosevelt peep show is not basically patented, will have competition. Ten similar projects are under way, although the big coin-machine makers (Wurlitzer, Rock-Ola, Seeburg) have not declared their intentions...
...supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb on the belltower, where boxing gloves have been seen to peep out of a dark corner...