Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower grandchildren (poor little things ! ) peddling tricycles . . . it does seem that they are just a wee bit young. Where are our Child Labor laws...
...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
Funster criticisms wee mainly "distance," while other Houses drew protests against "intelligentsia," "athletes," and "snobbery." Noted one Yardling of Eliot, "Behind that 'cold exterior,' there is a cold interior...
...crown, Narriman has had to contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen-age girls, Farouk with a pretty French blonde or Italian brunette...
...have yearned for a return to the big leagues. The older fans could still recall the heyday of the old big-league Orioles, who won three straight pennants-1894-96-and boasted such baseball immortals as Third Baseman John ("Muggsy") McGraw, Shortstop Hughie Jennings, Catcher Wilbert Robinson and Outfielder Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler. Baltimore's return to the big leagues, it appeared, would have to wait a while...