Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Hollywood influences manners and morals is a fairly prevalent theory. Recent evidence: the Shirley Temple coiffure, Mae West's gusty wisecracks, Holly-wood halo-hats, a break on the rising consumption of native U. S. whiskey. To relate this last-named fact to the cinema involved a statistical triumph of sorts, but the researchers of the Distilled Spirits Institute (formed after Repeal and headed by erstwhile Prohibition officer Dr. James M. Doran) collated the findings of its sober field workers, arrived at the conclusion that screen bibbers were shown drinking Scotch almost exclusively, to the detriment...
...anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick, but Heidi's Christmas present to Herr Sesemann was the sight of Klara walking. The climax of the story concerns the somewhat frenzied efforts of Grandfather Kramer to get Heidi back, while...
Michigan's Sprinter Sam Stoller, Jewish member of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team who was withdrawn from his events in Berlin, let it be known that in Mae West's next picture, Every Day's a Holiday, he will be one of a crowd in a New York saloon known as Trigger Luke...
Just think of what the history books would say about the kind of progress between the time when Horace Greeley said "Go west, young man," and when Mae West said "Come out and see me some time...
...things over, swallow my pride, and apologize. At least I would point out, if I could, that some of the 50 million were French or German or something and that there are still some nice fellows and timid souls in the U. S. who don't indulge in Mae West...