Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comforts of her big Long Island home with 23 Pekinese, named Yummie, Fuzz Wuzz, Cuddles, Baby Dear, Honey Child, etc. She also had a Brussels griffon, a black Persian cat and a dachshund named Poopchin. When Mrs. Shaw died last month, her will asked an old friend, Mrs. Ita Mae McGuire of Napanee, Ont., to adopt her 26-pet menagerie, left her a trust fund of $100,000 for their comfort...
Catherine Was Great (by Mae West; produced by Michael Todd) is an opulent and incredible fancy-undress affair in which the queen of all the sirens essays the Empress of All the Russias. "Catherine," said Mae West in a first-night curtain speech, "had 300 lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless...
...Mae West opened her new show, Catherine Was Great, in Philadelphia. Her first legitimate playwriting effort since The Constant Sinner in 1931, it was saluted as "dull" and "soggy" by critics. But Philadelphians kept packing in to hear Mae's latest line: "I've had a very busy day. Now I feel like seeing the man who's never seen a woman in his life...
...brilliantly lit by warm Oriental stars as we hit the Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...