Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mae West, always good for a quote or two, first told a Variety reporter that "a lot of loving is coming back from the war," then shook an admonishing finger at her sisters in arms: "Many wonderful men are already on the way home to their wives and sweethearts, and the lady who has been stepping out had best begin to polish off her low talk and shifty ways before he arrives...
...Mae West, who has been her own best press agent as well as author-star of Catherine Was Great, continued her city-to-city commentary on life & love. In Detroit, she was pleased to announce that "the best way to hold a man is in your arms. ... In wartime, love is a little more hysterical. . . . These days I think love is being kicked around too much . . . it ain't lofty enough...
Preliminary landings were made on several tiny islands west of Okinawa-in the Kerama Rhetto, and, the Japs said, also on Mae, Kamiyama. Then, at 8:30 on Easter Sunday morning, the Okinawa invasion was launched. After a ferocious preparatory bombardment, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger...
...Mae West, playing the lead in her Catherine Was Great to packed Chicago houses despite the drubbings of a harsh, hostile press, drawled back at her drama-critic detractors: "The way the boys wrote up the show, I'm surprised they weren't raided. And to think I took out the stronger lines . . . on account of Lent...
...dawn, she sighted a ship that looked, in the dim distance, like an armed raider. The stranger was twice challenged, and twice she ignored the "Daisy Mae." Then Lieut. Commander (now Commander) G. H. Stephen ordered his signalman: "Tell them we're going to open up if they don't answer.'' Back came the reply: "Carry on, Canada, with your gallant little ship...