Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wee Sma' Drop" the author finds an old man sitting corpselike in a wineshop, an untasted bottle before him, passively allowing the flies to attack a pimple on his forehead. It develops that for the old man the bottom has dropped out of everything. Gone sour are the immaterial wines of love, hope, desire. Sole remaining comfort, a drop of real grape, his family has denied him because it made him rowdy. Consolation he finds "by coming here and reminding myself that, while my sorrow is real enough now, all I should have to do would be to take...
...Labrador to Canada (TIME, Dec. 28), later hinted that rich U. S. citizens might be invited to lease Labrador-than which, from a British standpoint, nothing could be more deplorable. In St. John's one night last week harassed Newfoundland Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires sat up to wee hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned...
...later we actually captured a wee Heteronota bynoei, and in jubilation decided we were ready for the boat (this was the last species undiscovered). However, we viewed a great deal of empty horizon before Dr. Allen finally spotted her sails from the top of the beach; in the mean time we continued to collect, and got a few more reptiles--some in Dr. Allen's traps. In fact, we rushed out and shot and skinned one last wallaby while the Era was feeling her way through the reefs, and then went aboard as soon as she had anchored. The fishermen...
...heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...
...collection of the literary debris of Sarah Lampoon, last of the white witches and confidante of the Harvard faculty, is at liberty. Its appearance had hitherto been prophesied by the CRIMSON, and it is reported to have been lurking in the vicinity of Harvard Square bookstores during the wee hours of this morning...