Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris Calling (Universal) is wee, elfin Elizabeth (Escape Me Never!) Bergner's first Hollywood picture. Now 41, the onetime top actress of the German stage has been making movies in England for the last seven years. Despite Miss Bergner's talents, none of her pictures has greatly pleased U.S. cinemagoers...
...When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...
Then Missouri's obstreperous Dewey Short stood up in the House, flailed his long arms, popped off in his best alliterative style: "Wee Windy War Willkie. . . . Oh, this bellowing, blatant, bellicose, belligerent, bombastic blowhard. . . . God forgive me for ever having supported such an impostor. ... I really would like to take the gloves off and sail into Mr. Willkie as he deserves...
...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...
Brooklyn has won two previous pennants (1916 and 1920) since the World Series was inaugurated in 1903, but Wee Willie Keeler, Zack Wheat, Burleigh Grimes and Brooklyn's other immortals never succeeded in winning the Series. But Manager Leo Durocher, onetime Cardinal shortstop who, with the aid of nearly $1,000,000 worth of new material, led Brooklyn from third to first place in three years, brags "It'll take five or six games...