Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the years in which he was forging his intellectual reputation, Professor McIlwain, known informally as "Mae," established himself as one of the faculty's most enthusiastic and unorthodox tennis players. Though he has not played during the past three or four years, he denies that he has given up the game. During his temporary abandonment of tennis, classical music and the search for old books compete for his leisure hours...
...Mae's" black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...
...Died. Mae Busch, 49, early-day Keystone Comedy cinemactress and "versatile vamp" of the silent films; after long illness; in Hollywood...
...unknown. The daughter of a North Carolina preacher, she first sang in Manhattan's Town Hall at 15, with a group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...
While the pens of labor & management squiggled and flourished signatures to contracts affecting thousands of workers, the week's tiniest accord was signed in Chicago. Mrs. Ralph Bettman, a housewife, and Lillie Mae Add, her maid sat down to solve the labor problem in minuscule...