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Word: mees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mee - uh! (puff) 'Keesss - uh - meee -uh! (Takes a stance now, pauses dramatically, then lets drive) 'Yuuuh-gay-ay-ay-nuh!' Now, I ask you, gentlemen, if the proposition were put up to you in that fashion - would you?" Ever since he whanged the piano in Harvard's "Gold Coast" dance band a dozen years ago, Hollywood's Charles Henderson has felt that a ditty is no place for a diva. When he got out of Harvard, Charlie Henderson started studying the business of crooning in earnest, as Rudy Vallee's pianist. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...hurler in the Eastern Intercollegiate League last year with four wins and three losses, Farber's southpaw slants may trouble the Crimson more today than they did last Friday when he yielded 13 safeties. With 43 victims to his credit, the Tiger flinger was second only to Yale's Mee Jubitz in the 1938 circuit strikeout rankings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALEY SEEKS FOURTH WIN IN TIGER BATTLE | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

Veteran southpaw, Mee Jubitz heads a capable mound corps which includes Joe Wood, Bing Crosby, and Dick Ames. All of these boys are headed for stardom, and Freshman Ted Harrison is only biding his time until he can join them. Bill Poole and Tony Mott are the ranking catchers...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Pronounced mee-now and so named by Owner Hal Price Headley after his little daughter, whose impatience at his kissing his wife first on entering the house caused her to habitually stamp and squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons of my health-in themselves joyful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Expectant Broadcast | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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