Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pack up all my care and wee Here I go, singing low, Bye, bye, blackbird...
...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...
...that 16 months ago the Opposition parties posted on billboards by night, huge leering posters of Prince Babu Stirbey bearing the caption "This is He!" An especially significant poster was pasted up directly across the street from the royal apartments of Queen Marie, with the caption: "How do you Wee...
...White House in Washington. Most of us when our span of life is run are found to have been very much the same from year to year, and those who have known her all her life say that Grace Coolidge is very like Grace Goodhue, even very much like wee Grace Goodhue, who rode in her tall springy baby carriage of the period and looked out with wide, serious eyes upon the Vermont world and thought it a fascinating place, "Having no brothers or sisters for playmates and with no little girls of similar age and tastes in her neighborhood...
...heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back...