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Word: whee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...Whee, whee", cried my little roommate leaping to his feet, the vigorous fellow, "Whee, whee." At which sudden debacle I ran to Aunt Emma's sole contribution to our happy home and brought him the smelling salts. It was in vain. He persisted; insisted; resisted. So lowering him gently into the bathtub I discovered his secret...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...Whee, whee, whee", cried my roommate, devilish little tense. And he inserted a coughdrop in the proboscis of the ivory bearer. He still wears the evidence of that gaucherie. I hurried him to see the fat lady. "Wellesley", he whooped, "Wellesley", and bought her picture to send to a friend, named Edgell. Just then there was a cry of alarm from two Watch and Warders. I saw H. T. P. scurry to cover. And out came four ladies from Muscle Shoals, advertising Shreddel Wheat. I hurried my roommate away as fast as his little feet could tarry...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving very slowly, pushed back the dress that covered the breast of her youngest. The gash left by the woodpile ax was deep and scarlet. It had long since ceased to bleed. "Whee. . . ." A delighted shriek drifted in from the yard. The Ellison children and the big girls- from next door were now playing "frazzle-belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...water ? jug-jug-tereu ? are they the greatest lines in modern poetry f?the row about The Waste Land?the row about the row about The Waste Land?One of Ours? " ? France gave her to us, they murmured,' as they passed the statue of Liberty"?whee!?books about sex? Is there a literacy Court of Star Chamber that meets at the Algonquin ? ? Mr. . Conrad's modesty ? Housman's Last Poems?an antique bitterness?laconic magnificence?the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Pot-Pourri | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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