Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tireless, pee-wee Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant of Atlanta, oldest (28) and smallest (5 ft. 3) of the 1939 contenders, who has been among the top ten for the past six years and is famed not only as a tumblebug and crowd pleaser (he is almost as efficient horizontally as vertically) but also as one of the greatest retrievers in the history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis...
...wee Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...quaint ceremony of their own. Before the loopholed gate of old Fort Garry, Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of the Hudson's Bay Co. paid to the King the rent established when King Charles II granted its charter: "Two elkcs and two Black beavers whensoever and as often as Wee our heires and successors shall happen to enter into the said Countryes Territoryes and Regions hereby granted." The King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead of a ton of meat on the hoof and a pair of rambunctious rodents, accepted two mighty-antlered mounted heads and the choicest...
Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...