Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this decree prepared, Chancellor Hitler dismissed even his closest advisers and in the wee hours paced up and down his office alone. He knew his enemies were saying that the Army has tolerated his Nazi State only under orders from its beloved Feldmarschall. What were the Reichswehr generals doing? They knew well enough, while Adolf Hitler paced his office, that Death hovered over Neudeck. The German people did not. Dr. Goebbels had ruthlessly banished a leading editor for daring to print that the President's condition was "very grave...
...daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma," "Pee-Wee's Place" and the "Echo Pie Emporium" strutted blackamoors with "High Agnes" haircuts, trailed by admiring country cousins. Dicing, dancing and cutting went on hour after hour until the sun once more lit up the tall towers and gleamed on the broad river at Memphis. Thus ended, after...
Every Thursday (by Doty Hobart; O. E. Wee & Jules J. Leventhal, producers). There must be few maids-of-all-work who so assiduously pursue the good deeds that occupy bright-haired, charming Sadie (Queenie Smith) in Mr. Hobart's play. Sadie firmly dissuades the young master from his juvenile excesses, even going so far as to disrupt his romance with a painted lady from the wrong part of town. Sadie herself has a hankering for him but, a conscientious domestic, she decides to stay in her own class...
Most of the performers in New Faces, a pee-wee revue, lacking a chorus, are unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment...
...wee hours of that last morning of balloting at the famous Chicago Convention of July, 1932, Mr. Roosevelt's fate hung in the hands of just a handful of men. A mistake of judgment then and the nomination might have been blocked and a compromise candidate chosen, perhaps Newton Baker or Gover nor Ritchie...