Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with their "Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring...
...Mae West, in Manhattan to star in her forthcoming Catherine Was Great, vowed that she had read at least twelve books on the great 18th-Century Russian before writing the play. Mae explained that Catherine "was really a great woman, she wasn't so crazy about men," and added that the play would have "two of everything, and twice...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
...Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime...
...Mae is quite pleased that the R.A.F. called their bulky lifebelts "Mae Wests" in honor of the outstanding feature of her anatomy. The term has made the dictionary. Says Mae: "Sort of makes me feel like I started a second front of my own. I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but that's the first time Webster's given me the call...