Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago Wiley Post set out from Los Angeles in the Winnie Mae on what was to be a 400-m.p.h. 7-hr. nonstop flight to New York in the substratosphere. An hour later an overheated engine forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...first time Wiley Post flew Winnie Mae into the stratosphere last week he thought he climbed 48,000 ft. The second time, he thought he reached 55,000 ft. but had no way of telling because his altimeter froze at 35,000 ft. Not until the barographs used on the flights are checked will Pilot Post know whether he beat the world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made...
...clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg's studio found the young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post of honor was the head of Mae West and on shelves, ready to be mounted, were the staring heads of Los Angeles' own heroes: Will Rogers, Lon Chaney. Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Tibbett, Bela Lugosi...
There are other aspects of the gay nineties or frivolous eighties than those depicted by Mae West. In "Judge Priest," we see a small southern town, actually, Paducah, Kentucky fifteen or twenty years after the Civil War. They are clearly defined. There is the villain, a golden-tongued, politician. There are the heroes (1) Judge Priest, (2) Ellie May's ex-convict father, (3) Jerome Priest (young love interest). There are minor villains and a heroine and of course a supporting cast of half heroes. For most people, though, whether they are southerners or not, the best performance is that...
Should "The Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles," appear on a cinema screen from which the images of Mae West and Jean Harlow have just faded...