Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...
Pointer. In Dillon, S.C., James Bethea's bird dog wandered onto the tracks, spotted a train bearing down, belly-flopped, allowed engine and cars to whiz over him, got up, ambled away...
...Fred's since he played it as a boy in Indiana. Mutual gave it a try, with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters and a nationwide sponsor (Ronson lighters...
Actress Merman plays Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting whiz of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-and the gal whose name became a synonym (because they are punched with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
...Whiz. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Norma Briley got her divorce when she produced notes to her husband from his secretary: "I luv U . . . I've told U b4 and U obviously no . . . we should consider ourselves 4tunate...