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Word: mae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home Is the Sailor | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Bequeathed to Cinemactress Mae West by the late Oscar Monroe Abbott, a Chicago businessman, were a diamond and pearl stickpin, "my sincere good wishes and a cordial invitation to kum up and see muh some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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