Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an incredibly hackneyed story of a gruff mechanic with revolutionary ideas on carburetors who falls in love with a fellow-worker in an automobile factory. She turns out to be the boss's niece, masquerading under a false name to learn the business. Climax is a ridiculous world speed trial on Muroc Dry Lake in which love and the carburetor win out. Adequate acting by James Stewart and Wendy Barrie give Speed its only tinge of interest...
FRIEDRICH EXCELS-Gustav Mayer- Knopf...
...hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
Contemptuous of marriage, he took his mistresses from the British proletariat, but married the second on her deathbed, just to please her. He knew he was second fiddle to Marx. and. according to Biographer Mayer, was quite content...
...year, equipment sales have jumped 50%. Women like fencing because they think it improves their posture. At U. S. Salles d'Armes feminine enrollment has also jumped 50% over a year ago. Victory of a Detroiter in a tournament which, except when it was won by German Helene Mayer, has always been won by Easterners, was one indication of fencing's spreading vogue. An even more spectacular one has been provided this winter by the presence in New York of Aldo Nadi. Aldo Nadi is a sleek, suave and almost incredibly elegant young man from Livorno, Italy...