Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument started when the noble Lady's knowledge of slum children was challenged by the Labor party's famed spinster M. P., Miss Ellen ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson...
...recent meeting of the Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Phi fraternity, four men wee elected to membership in the organization, which in the School of Engineering corresponds to Phi Beta Kappa. The newly elected members are C. J. Hooper G.E.S., of Chicago, III., J. Mc.D. Ide G.E.S., of Redicnds, Calif., M. H. MacKusick '28, of Cambridge, and M. B. Nunlist '28, of Brooklyn...
...beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee, Li-Li-Wee, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon. Li-Li-Wee's husband then plays dominoes with the son of the Grand Eunuch instead of operating on him; thus providing the most extraordinary happy-ending which has yet been permitted on the Manhattan stage...
...novel. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked...
Devout Christian policemen locked up protesting Mahout Wee as a murderer...