Word: mae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with a uniformed chauffeur, while last year was just another vulgar convertible...
...button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that is the envy of such neighbors as Actor Brian Aherne and Septuagenarian Siren Mae West...
Each summer for 16 years, the citizens of Mayenne (pop. 10,000), a river town 150 miles west of Paris, had pleaded with Maggie Mae McRacken, now a 48-year-old widow and a $50-a-week sales-clerk in a Charlotte, N.C., sundries shop, to come and visit them. But for reasons of health, family responsibility, finances and natural reticence, Maggie McRacken never got to Mayenne-until last week. Then, she and the townfolk of Mayenne finally met at the end of an intensely sentimental journey...
...duplications are neither annoying nor indeed very noticeable. This goes particularly for Madeline Rosten and Anna Kay Moses, the only women, switch about genially from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly...
...office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction is that he is the father of Kathy Grant, in private life Mrs. Bing Crosby...