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Word: peking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Exile Trotsky | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Said Variety: "It should do for the Peke industry what The Captive did for violets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow and then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search oi her runaway Peke, almost decided to jilt the strong, silent Martin because his father ate sauerkraut and split his infinitives. So far we were for young Hope? strong, silent yokels being our pet abhorrence and the homelife of the Van Huisches as displayed on the screen something that needed a muzzle rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 23, 1923 | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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