Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wee Russell, whose friends have been giving him up for dead on a day by day basis for at least nine years, used to hang out with the Chicago crowd during his undergraduate days at the University of St. Louis. He'd skip out of classes every week and start back Tuesday so he'd be back Wednesday in time for his first Monday class. One week he was in St. Louis just long enough to buy another ticket to Chicago. He forgot to get a round trip; so he never went back...
...wee frees" still stay outside the Church of Scotland, constitute the small (23,375 members) Free Church of Scotland. On the same day Dr. Baillie was installed, they held their own service in St. Columba's Church, seated as their Moderator Dr. David McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted...
...role of the telegraph boy, Mickey Rooney turns in a performance amazingly better than any of his recent drooling. Jack Jenkins steals several scenes from old maestro Rooney as precocious Ulysses, and the other players, especially Frank Morgan (in a role which is becoming a wee bit stereotyped for him) are very adequate...
...albums, the Decca Chicago Album, and the Bud Freeman album of the old Wolverine numbers of Bix Beiderbecke, are living proofs of the non-existence of true Chicago style since its decline at the beginning of the thirties. The present-day Chicagoans, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Pee-wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, George Wettling, and all the rest have stuck together, but their music is not a style...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...