Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Helene Mayer and Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when...
Viva Villa (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Pancho Villa was a Mexican cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...
...climax of the revue is the performance of Lottic Mayer's Diving Beauties, who first wade into a tank, where they disappear, and then emerge to give a diving exhibition. The woman sitting in front of us reviewed it by gasping, "Oh, ain't it beautifull...
...battle now raging between the Cambridge School Teachers, and (as far as we can make out) everybody also in Cambridge, including the Mayer, City Council, people, parents and pupils, the real spearhead of the teachers' battalion is an organization quaintly described is an organization quaintly described as the "C.T.B.E.S.R." Even in an age of abbreviations this easily establishes a record. Translated, it means "The Cambridge Teachers Bureau of Educational and Statistical Research...