Word: bee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mormon word meaning the land of the honey bee...
Lost in a Spelling Bee. Not everybody joined in the fun. Among those who didn't were parents who discovered that fourth-graders could not hold their own in a spelling bee. Miss Seeds's frame schoolhouse became more of an embattled blockhouse than an ivory tower. One parent complained that her child could not even read her grandma's handwriting. "Who can?" retorted Miss Seeds...
...care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs. George Phillips, had time to do right by Mattie Lou. Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, with mother and teacher looking on, Mattie Lou won the Scripps-Howard 20th National Spelling Bee, a $500 prize and a trip to New York. Said pleased-as-punch Schoolmarm Phillips: "It just makes me sick to think how many words we must have studied...
...This legend has been wished on children's radio entertainers since earliest days of broadcasting. The Uncle Don "incident" story [TIME, Feb. 24] is definitely apocryphal. Don himself recalls hearing the same gag told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...
...Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom-a development which would rouse no enthusiasm in rival Arab states...