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Word: maes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Victor MacLaglen, or George Bancroft," exclaimed Miss Lee, tossing her head and revealing a gleaming white shoulder. "And I don't like English actors either; I don't mind their accents, but it's their actions that get me down." Gypsy was enthusiastic in her praise of Mae West. "She's just terrific and very clever, and talented, too. I didn't like her last picture so well--it was too vulgar, but usually she is just right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burlesque Queen Likes Harvard Men; Football Stars Too Handsome---Make Her Very Nervous | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

Nagel does not agree with President Roosevelt's statement that movie stars are overpaid. He said: "Take Mae West--she was the whole attraction in her picture, 'She Done Him Wrong.' The picture took in about $2,500,000; and yet Miss West probably received less than two per cent of that figure. As long as she brings in the box receipts, she should get the money; because in ten years probably no one will know who Mae West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conrad Nagel Compares Film Actresses to Meat Finds Bogey Men and Thugs too Active in Park | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...those silly doctors admire Mae West but they mustn't tell our daughters that her corseted waist and padded hips are any boon to motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...issue of TIME (Oct. 16), I read on p. 34 that the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, meeting in Mil waukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood." Such inconsistency is positively nauseating. When I was a girl, doctors spent a great deal of time warning young girls of the terrible consequences of wearing corsets and pulling in their waists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...late Calvin Coolidge, and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 28, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull : a daughter, their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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