Word: mae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come all the good priests happened to be listening to Mae West [TiME...
...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...
...finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots seldom see him. Weekends he plays poor but occasionally inspired polo at the Riviera Country Club, where he has a one-goal rating. That he has any rating at all he attributes to the fact that he pays a pretty big club bill...
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...
...incomplete account, was only frenzied, made-in-Rome propaganda. His "new" evidence was dug out of a "psychological" investigation. And Author Ludwig does succeed in presenting a Cleopatra who, as Queen of Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, deserves something better than her reputation as a sort of Oriental Mae West...