Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl...
...announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered all its substitute stained glass. Shopping in Canterbury's streets, Lydia Cecily Hill, 27, cabaret friend of the opulent Sultan of Johore, 67, was slain. The Sultan, who is acquainted also with the Franklin D. Roosevelts and Mae West, expressed deep sorrow and consoled Mother Hill. She well knew that the only reason he isn't her son-in-law was prudish pressure by the sahibs of Singapore, where the Sultan met the Hills, and by the British Government (TIME...
...output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Okeh, which more elaborately describes this division as "Novelty Dance, Country...
...balding oldtime hoofer, Frank Wallace, announcing himself as Cinemactress Mae West's undivorced husband (he said he was married to her in 1911), claimed a share in her $500,000-a-year income (TIME, July 19, 1937). All he got from Miss West was grudging confirmation of the marriage. Last week Song & Dance Man Wallace tried again. Shifting his attack to her fat-faced, multiple-chinned manager, James A. Timony, Wallace sought damages of $105,000, charging that Timony had threatened his life, conspired against his chances for employment, assumed "the position and relationship of a common-law husband...
...MARSH, PIONEER IN PALEONTOLOGY-Charles Schuchert & Clara Mae LeVene-Yale...