Word: lil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West reminisced about her ten months in Britain, where she revived her 20-year-old Diamond Lil: "I was quite a social success, as well as with my show. I met the King and Queen. I guess I met everybody there was to meet. I even had a lot of the Oxford boys after me." The boys were "quite exciting" and "I had twelve proposals." Mae concluded that her own attractions are universally appreciated: "I have the masses, I have the classes, I have all types of people...
Robbed: Mae West. Somebody got into her dressing room at London's Prince of Wales theater (where she is packing them in with Diamond Lil), and made off with $16,000 worth of diamond jewelry...
...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
...rocky peninsula and the hub of a 200-sq.-mi. staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across...
...Once upon a time," says Miss Lil, "each of us was born. We came out of our mother's body after living with her for nine months...