Word: peeping
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...closely knit as a village. Usually it is the village bad boys and girls-erring corset salesmen, twisted sex victims, brawling cinema actors and actresses-who make the rest of the villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show, the newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume and penetration. Through it all, the hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies...
Finally, in a blaze of glory, the day at court closes, and once again you are permitted to peep into a Queen's boudoir. Once again the ladies of the Court dance attendance, and while the curtain descends, Her Royal Highness slowly sinks to slumber. It's a touching scene, so leave early if you are easily moved to tears...
...intensely. Certainly there is a contagious thrill to newspaper work quite as keen on the Crimson as on any metropolitan. daily. One has the run of seeing events all meetings people at fret traid or, as Philip Gibbs has expressed it, of sitting in a front seat at the peep show of life...
...them continued to peep their chubby infant granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth,* famed as "Baby Betty." A nurse held her up at the window of her nursery in Buckingham Palace, and she blinked sleepily, sucking her thumb...
...Come and look quick. The show will soon shut down for a year. Delectable slums; peep-shows of half-blind women and their broods basting mountainous piles of garments, making artificial flowers, beading gowns, and supported by charity. Take a good look before the curtain is drawn...