Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control retail outlets agreed to buy up surplus gasoline from independent refiners who signed the agreement and guarantee them an adequate supply of crude oil at all times. If the 38 Meanwhile last week "hot oil" was burning the political hides of some worthy citizens of Texas. Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson announced that she would call a special session of the State legislature if "hot oil" production was not stopped. What helped provoke her threat was a minor scandal in the Texas Railroad Commission. Six weeks ago the Commission selected as its proration officer to stop "hot oil" shipments...
...hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed by growers, shippers and canners in a dozen States...
...Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper...
...narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought to nail that board, in place. . . ." The Author. Elder brother of Author Oliver La Farge...