Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...break the monotony of blue sky and clear airs. News from England shows that light-plane builders recognize the need of sociability; and at a recent meet at Lympne, two-seater "chummy-fly-abouts" made their appearance for the first time. With a 30 horsepower engine, the curiously named Wee-Bee 1 made a speed of 70 m.p.h., with a mileage of 36 to the gallon, carrying a pilot and passenger of ordinary weight...
Into a Paris garage rolled a roadster, hot from the Dieppe road. The hour was a wee, small one. The garage was full downstairs. The mechanic on duty so informed the driver of the roadster, requested that he steer to the elevator for a ride to the second floor. Out leaped the 'driver. "I," said he, "am Georges Carpentier," bashed the mechanic's nose with his gorgeous right fist. With an untranslatable exclamation, the mechanic dove at his customer's knees, tackled, rolled the Orchid Man of France upon the greasy garage floor, pummelled, beat, ejected...
...nine issues of the Mercury you will find piece after piece by some one described in the contributors' column as being "for years city editor of the Wee-Wee Daily Argus" or as "dean of the correspondents...
...atmosphere in which they are treated. In the days of Socrates, philosophy was distilled with the fumes of Hellenic wine, and the asperity of the argument was soothed by the strains of a girl flute player. Eros was discussed, according to Plato's Symposium, until the wee sma' hours, by which time, as usual, the steady-headed Socrates had drunk all of his comrades under the table, thereby winning the argument...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...