Word: whee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Review, Dorothy ("Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses") Parker, wit, versifier and short-story writer, spoke frankly about many things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly dated." Of the difference between...
LORD & TAYLOR moved in on staid Philadelphia this week with all the whistle and whee of a Hollywood premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...
...admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...