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...Whee! Perhaps it's going to be Landis. Everybody stand round, and start looking for a new Law School Dean. Heaven forfend. Get Sutherland back on the bench quick. Perhaps it's going to be Frankfurter, and everybody knows he just runs the New Deal. Well, it might be Gus and it might be Bill and it might be Charlic. The American public can bet its boots that the presses will be full of conjecture about this public man and that. Then the choice comes. Somebody says he's good, somebody says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAP HANDS! | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...suddenly decided to go to the University of Miami. He was said to have commented on a statement published in the January 27 issue of the Crimson: "Wolf is said to know more about what is going on at Harvard than anyone else except the President of the Crimson. Whee!" and to have expressed the unreasonable desire to obtain a broader cultural background than could be acquired by knowing about Harvard or even about the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Some liberal faculty members, including President James B. Conant, are friendly with him. From his wide contacts, Wolff is said to know more about what is going on at Harvard than anyone else except the President of The Crimson. (WHEE!) News-Week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like Russian for 'Whee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Report from Moscow | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Whee! TIME erred. "Honest John Dillinger" spells his name "Dellinger." I asked him in Psychology class half hour after I read your story on the real villain [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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