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Word: maes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daddies. As many chuckles as there are children. The story is negligible, churning out farce and romance by turns arbitrarily. It can be summed up thus: Five bachelors who adopt eight war orphans-one of them a grown girl (Mae Marsh)- are equal to one love affair, plus a dozen spankings. This being the era of the child on the screen, audiences laugh incessantly at the bumptious brats before licking their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...perhaps, worthwhile to record the first woman Chairman of a Congressional Committee-Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, Republican, Representative from California, sole female member of the 68th Congress. She was chosen Chairman of one of the House's 60 committees-the Committee on Expenditures of the Post Office Department. She is also a member of the Labor Committee, of which her late husband and predecessor was Chairman. At her own request, she was relieved of her post on the Woman Suffrage Committee, because she did not care to hold more than two committee posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A First | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...meeting was opened by R. P. Bullard '24, who led the Freshmen in singing several hymns and Harvard songs. H. H. Mae Cubbin '26, chairman of the Committee on Bible Study and Discussion Groups of the Phillips Brooks House Association, next introduced the speaker of the evening. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, of the Divinity School who talked on how to adjust oneself to the demands of College life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 FRESHMEN ATTEND FIRST OF MONDAY LECTURE SERIES | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

Then there's someone named M. Merton Fernandez, who thus describes Mae Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vamps & Shiekers | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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