Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here, in the prosperous bounteous United States, I feel like a maggot in a great big piece of cheese." Thus Miss E. ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson, shingled, petite, British Laborite M. P., broached an appeal for U. S. contributions to the British coal miners strike fund last week at a feminist foregathering in Manhattan presided over by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. "Wee Ellen," green of hat, green-gowned, dangling jauntily a green purse continued: "Nearly a million miners are locked out,"* (TIME...
...mickle battle, forging from behind to the top of the press of contestants with daring-do worthy of a new champion. Sturdy Gene Sarazen, leader of the first day's match stepped forward, as did swart Johnny Farrell, ahead the second day, to shake the hand of wee Macdonald Smith, final victor on the third day, in the Canadian Open Golf Tournament last week. Came then the departing champion, nervous Leo Diegel, followed by many another Yankee guest and Canadian host, howbeit the latter had retained for themselves for best but seventh place...
That was all. The mighty Missourian had not got much?just a wee bit. But the ink was not yet dry on the "extras" when General Andrews was being shaped in the public eye as John Barleycorn Redivivus. Quoth, for example, Senator McKellar of Tennessee...
Bobby Jollyco, Sally Jollyco, Tee-wee Jollyco (the baby), and Julia (the maid) were all "sold" on Ivory and helped to sell others. All were treated with ingenious ingenuousness as real characters with continuous histories, the copy being so well written that the Jollyco doings read like bits of Dickens or Thackeray, with Ivory Soap mentioned quite casually. The public became so interested that thousands of letters poured in: "Send Bobby Jollyco to boarding school. . . . Have Teewee make mud pies. . . . When can Sally Jollyco go to dancing school...
...next visitors called upon the Pope in the wee hours of the morning. His Holiness was in bed, and in order not to wake him the gentlemen made as little noise as possible; in order not to disturb his court, they considerately let themselves in by the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, visited the sacristy (treasury for sacred ornaments), left with valuables-an antique ring, a pectoral cross, a gilded chalice ornamented with pearls, a gold chalice and, among other things, a gold service for the mass presented by Cardinal Merry del Val. Two days later, robbers...