Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mae West, past mistress of the vague invitation, prepared for yet another Broadway comeback, in a play with a title that finally got down to cases: Ring Twice Tonight...
...Anna Mae Bain, a miner's wife, stood weeping in the rain, repeating desperately: "Jim will come out alive. He simply has to do that for me and his children." Many other tired women stood in numb silence. The Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co. had not seen fit to insure its men under Kentucky's workmen's compensation laws, and there would be no benefits for the widows...
There were other causes: in Chicago Mrs. Mae Casey was divorced from a soldier who had taken a second wife in New York, written: "Honey, she got me all hot and bothered." Many a soldier was coming home to find his wife pregnant, or the mother of another man's child...
Died. Clyde LaVerne Herring, 66, onetime Iowa Governor (1932-1936) and New Dealing U.S. Senator (1937-1942); of a heart ailment; in Washington. Periodically startled by what he heard on the radio (Mae West, Boris Karloff...
...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...