Word: shee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...give an added regal polish, there were lessons in French (from a French countess), German, art, and dancing. As time went on, the Vice-Provost of Eton, erudite Clarence Henry Kennett ("Shee-Kay") Marten (later knighted and promoted to Provost), was called in to brush up the Princess' constitutional history...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
...year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...
...always felt that he had seen the pictures somewhere before. But for that matter other places were being bombed, too, so that didn't give him much to go by. Of course he knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with Hu Shee in the Boston Herald before he stumbled onto Burma and that nasty Kiel. Still he couldn't believe that all Chinese girls looked like Hu Shee. Otherwise the Vag might have felt the old wanderlust boiling in his veins. Probably all Chinese girls wore pig-tails, and being very mature, Vag felt above...