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Word: peeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honkytonk. I don't mean a carny show where the play is for the sucker. You can't put a show on like that any more. You got to give. So I'm gonna give." Mike is even going to give Elmer "for free" a peep at the Girl in the Goldfish Globe. After that, Mike thinks, Elmer will not mind giving a little something himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Elmer for a World's Fair | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jimmie's Peep Shows | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: King Snaps | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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