Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comunale in ancient Florence one night last spring, it seemed to the swank audience watching the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, part of the city's "Musical May" festival, that Dancer Leonide Massine was behaving oddly indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from...
...route is now lined with soldiers giving their buttons a last polish with their cuffs. Out of the corner of his mouth one of them says to an old lady in the crowd: ''Why don't you join the Army, Ma? You'd get a better view. . . ." The King's Company of the Grenadier Guards proudly flaunt their new King's Color...
...Recognition of Mrs. Warfield as a royal duchess, entitled to be called Her Royal Highness and addressed as Madam or "Ma...
...Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta
...excitement is a parade! It keeps sewing circles and church socials chattering for weeks before and days afterwards. It makes Pop misplace his glasses just fifteen minutes before the first band swings past Lexcord Green; Sally must have her face washed twice as a double protection against dirt; and Ma thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed free of winter...