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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, March 25, made some rather misleading statements regarding "Bebop" music, Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, "Slim" Gaillard, and modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

This little critic went to Loew's; this little critic went to Keith's. This little critic liked heavies; this little critic liked farce. And this little critic went wee wee wee wee into the office of the manager of the Majestio Theatre. This is what he found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/15/1946 | See Source »

Driving Cambridge-ward down a Dorchester bill in the wee, pre-dawn hours one night, a Yardling was halted by a flashlight attached to a police-man. After submitting to a tirade, the hapless student insisted that he had bought the car while stationed in Texas, that he lived in New York, and that he went to school in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Wee Little Whiff Tells Harvard Man A Mile Away | 3/15/1946 | See Source »

Next time it should be a bunny that sleeps with a Hutch man, but this week it was only a wee timorous beastie who made a bedfellow of Leverett House Lennie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Molests Mouse in Bed; Does Len Violate Parietals? | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...Decca, 8 sides). Condon's guitar gives rhythm to Jack Teagarden's fine trombone, Bobby Hackett's clean, relaxed trumpet and Singer Lee Wiley's blue do on Someone to Watch over Me and The Man I Love. Along for the ride are Condonites Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and others. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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