Word: mae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflated my Mae West and released my rubber dinghy about 25 ft. from the water. As my feet touched the water, I dumped one side of the parachute. My head barely went under the water. Surfacing, I found my dinghy only three strokes away. Ten seconds after touching down I was in the dinghy. Fifty seconds later I had ripped open my survival kit, set the squawk-radio beam going, activated my 11-h.p. radio and called Thunderbird Two. The first thing I asked him was whether he had sunk that gunboat. He said...
...Died. Mae Murray, 75, blonde queen of Hollywood's Babylonian babyhood, who danced out of the Ziegfeld Follies into an endless string of silent-movie romances, most notably Erich Von Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance...
...time of his death, Malcolm X had a hard-core following of no more than 100-but he was more or less admired by thousands who, deep in their hearts, were pleased by his denunciations of the white devil. "He will be avenged," said his half sister Mrs. Ella Mae Collins. "We are going to repay them for what they did to Malcolm," said Leon 4X Ameer, another turncoat Black Muslim who had a score of his own to set tle-a Christmas beating in Boston by karate-skilled bullyboys of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslim enforcement "elite...
...might be interested in the story behind the artist who originally painted the picture of the President's birthplace that the Kurds copied for the background of their Man of the Year cover [Jan. 1]. My mother, Etta Mae Humphreys, painted Johnson's birthplace last year, and after she presented her painting to the President in Washington, he wrote her that it was "a marvelous piece of work. You have captured a piece of my early years that mean a great deal to me." The President also owns her paintings of the LBJ Ranch and his boyhood home...
...gallerygoer can bellow an unrepentent riposte full of good Bronx cheer. Independence Day puts a tiny Statue of Liberty atop a large black pyramid. When the switch is turned on, Miss Liberty's torch blinks redly, and an ingeniously spliced tape combines the distorted voice of Mae West with electronic sounds that convey a mounting hysteria of urban cacophony...