Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys...
...author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla of the cinema business...
...Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read...
Forest Lawn's first funeral chapel was the Little Church of the Flowers, a quarter-mile downhill from the Wee Kirk. When asked in 1923 if a marriage might be performed in the Little Church, Chairman Eaton replied, "Why not?" Since then 7,000 nuptials have taken place, to the increasing distaste of Southern California ministers, in that church and in the Wee Kirk which was built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages...
...Starbuck as a brother TIME reader and fraternity brother in the seagoing profession is just a "wee bit" dramatic in parts of his statement but I feel he speaks the truth when he says, "Many a young officer who is on the first rung of the ladder to command owes his push upward to the books sent aboard...