Word: peeping
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Scarcely a peep of protest came from the unions. Most of their members were now gladly working for whatever they could get, wherever they could get it. With so many jobless a strike, they realized, would be the emptiest of empty gestures...
...which didactic Alfred Stieglitz thought his prints were worth. Many critics paused longer in the first part of the exhibition which really at tempted to show the development of photography in the U. S. Here were some stiff and dingy daguerreotypes, some stereopticon pictures from old Bowery peep prints," and shows, in old particular a theatrical few prints by "cabinet a man who could hold his head up with any Photosecessionist, whose prints were not only of considerable artistic merit but invaluable historic documents: Brady, the Civil War photographer. Mathew B. Brady (he did not know what the B. stood...
...woman, you understand. I was born in the same part of Colorado. . . . I have lots of friends out in Thermopolyae, Wyo., but I have to tell them I'm a trained nurse because they never heard of art. They'd think I was working in a peep show...
After dawn, a fisherman off Cove Neck heard a woman calling for help from a small boat anchored offshore. He rowed to the boat, found it was the Bo Peep, onetime tender of the yacht Resolute, now the launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck. The woman in it was young, dark, comely. She said she was Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard...
...water. She threw him an air-cushion, which one of the pirates retrieved. Then the two men put her into their canoe. They paddled for a long time, back across the Sound, she believed. One of them tried to attack her. Finally they put her in the anchored Bo Peep, with several blankets, and paddled away. One was a middle-aged man, the other a youth of about...