Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrain radio's funnymen from capitalizing on her bawdy Adam & Eve skit (TIME, Dec. 27), National Broadcasting Co. issued a ukase barring mention of Mae West on programs of the 15 stations it ovi'ns or operates. Not affected were 130 independent stations leasing NBC broadcasts...
Sexational, robustious Cinemactress Mae West appeared on a commercial broadcast for the first time in four years. Result: the most indignant wave of protest from radio listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean...
...Louis--Luncheon in the Adam Room of the Statler Hotel, December 29 at 12:15 o'clock. Secretary, Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29, 1516 Pierce Bldg., St. Louis...
...Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (27 churches, 300 members) believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God; that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone today is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching or missionary work...
...Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...