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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated Unconscious, jolted by some logophilous Birth-trauma into chronic serial extension." Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche mothst secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking. Now whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?Pee Wee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lorelei | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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