Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening, the Prince attendee a dance in the Town Hall, which he did not leave until the "wee" hours of the morning. At one period, when he was in "a merry mood," he was asked to cut an enormous birthday cake "Certainly," replied the Prince, "I'll do anything you like." The top two layers of the cake were removed and Prince, seizing a knife, plunged it up to the hilt into the cake. To his horror and to the amusement of the guests he found that he could neither cut the cake nor move the knife. The cake...
...they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert T. Jones Jr., Atlanta amateur. It was, extra nervous strain and labor such as there was in 1923 between Jones (who won) and wee Bobby Cruickshank of Shackamaxon. Only more...
...indifference of the authorities at Harvard toward Professor Baker and his famous drama course, which has resulted in moving the course bodily to Yale, is probably the result of an old Brahmin tradition in Back Bay that any one having to do with the theatre is just a wee bit declasse. It is all right to work around footlights in Hasty Pudding theatricals, with the proper patronesses, but beyond that one simply does not go. However, as Professor Baker can probably do his work much more efficiently at Yale, the existence of this attitude at Harvard would seem...
...last week a reporter asked: "Will General Dawes, as Vice President, attend Cabinet meetings ?" The answer was: "No; at least, last August, when he dropped in at Plymouth, Vermont, to see the President, he said he didn't care to be present." Here was news, if only a wee bit. Senator Harding, during his campaign in 1920, announced that he would, if elected, invite Governor Coolidge to sit in the Cabinet. Some 7,000.000 votes decided that Vice President Coolidge should do so, and he did. So the precedent was set. Now it seems ready to be broken. Political...
...went forth-three one way, three the other. Three left New Jersey in the evening. They were at San Fran- cisco at sunset; in Honolulu in the afternoon; in Malabar (Java) in the morning; in London mist in the wee, small hours; back on Long Island in the evening. The other three left Massachusetts at the same time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival...