Word: maes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...
...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
Thus New England sends a woman to Congress for the first time. She is the seventh woman to sit in the House of Representatives. Others: Miss Jeannette Rankin (Montana) ; Miss Alice Robertson (Oklahoma) ; Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck (Illinois) ; Mrs. Mae E. Nolan (California) ; Mrs. Julius Kahn-(California) ; Mrs. Mary T. Norton* (New Jersey). She follows the new "widow" precedent in politics (Mrs. Nolan and Mrs. Kahn and Governess Ross of Wyoming succeeded their husbands-Mrs. Huck, her father...
...Mae E. Nolan (Representative from California in the 67th and 63th Congresses), she says: "I heard some well-meaning and kind-hearted friends in California say they voted for her because they wanted to 'see her get the money' that her husband would have received had he lived to fill his term in Congress. It was our good fortune that Mrs. Nolan did no violence to any of our cherished principles and we liked...
...Utica, N. Y., one Mrs. Mae Kingsley Mullane sat up till 1:30 on a Saturday night, waited for her husband, then shot him dead with a revolver. In court, last week, she heard the judge arraign her for murder, was led to a cell where she asked for something to read. Said the Utica Observer-Dispatch: "One of the magazines she is reported to have requested is Time, a weekly magazine of current events...