Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Willy-wee Calfee of the Lampoon told the CRIMSON last night that he will use the proceeds from the Vogue issue, reported to be in the neighborhood of $1.21, to hire a horse-drawn vehicle to take the rival teams to Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock...
...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...
Night and Day, a London imitation of The New Yorker, was published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle...
...Lord Chief Justice in their hearts, decided not to risk a trial. The suit was publicly settled out of court. Author, proprietor, publisher and printer agreed to pay Shirley Temple $10,000, to hand over an additional $7,500 to Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., producers of Wee Willie Winkie. It was announced that the $17,500, when collected, would go to charity...
Other backfield aspirants were: Ralph Hornblower '41, Clifton Helman '41, Bill Tully '41, Al Jaretzki '41, George Smith '41, Bill Stedman '41, Charles Burnett '41, Herbert Wee '41, D. C. Hamilton '41, Joe Gardella '41, Bob Toomey '40, Bill Tyng '41, Louis Harder '41, Al Stohn '41, Joe Scherer '41, G. W. Bailey '40, Ben Smith '39, Pete Thompson '40, Pete Elser '41, Tom Gaffney '41, Bob James '41, and George Harder...