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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Shirley Temple has grown up, it is time that Hollywood stopped exploiting her round little face, took about fifteen pounds off her, and let her act. If she were given a chance, Miss Temple could act very well, as she proved in "Wee Willie Winkie"; but too often she is thrown into a saccarhine musical cocktail just to appease the Tired Business Man. Such a picture is "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...this film, their first starring vehicle, with a slapstick career in vaudeville and musical comedy that started a dozen years ago. All were born in Newark, Al first (1903), Jimmy next (1905), and Bossprankster Harry last (1908). Their concocted whimsy extends offstage. They attended the Hollywood premiere of Wee Willie Winkie in kilts, once cooled their feet in a Beverly Hills municipal fountain. Sojourning in Manhattan, they like to sit in Lindy's, eating bagels (doughnut-shaped hard bread) and watch Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...covers, are drawn up on the tracks in every important station. At every station, no matter how small whenever a group of soldiers departs, there is a group of people singing, cheering, and waving flags to give them a royal send off. These demonstrations are found even in the wee hours of the morning. School children make up a large per cent of any group; in fact, one school boy confided to me that the students hadn't had much of a vacation this year because whenever there were not enough people in a village to give a proper farewell...

Author: By Malcolm R. Wilkey, | Title: Harvard Undergraduate Describes Signs in Japan that "China Incident" Is Real War | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

Married. Charles Correll, "Andy" of the famed radio team of "Amos 'n' Andy" ; to Dancer Alyce Mercedes McLaughlin; in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Hollywood. She is his second wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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