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Word: ma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asinine laughs, platitudes and backslapping madden his sardonic mother-in-law. J. Aubrey loses his job, wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up From Jew Street | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Husband and wife work like one person with two heads, four hands, 20 fingers. "We compare notes," says M. Joliot, "and exchange our thoughts so constantly that we honestly don't know which of us is the first to have an original idea. Don't you agree, ma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artificial Radioactivity | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...money but because there is no cheaper way to make their possessions safe. In nearly all cases pawnshop profits go to charity. Thus the Paris Crédit Municipal is known respectfully as "Le Mont de Piéte" (The Mount of Piety) and with flippant affection as "ma tante" (my aunt). On the day President Roosevelt closed every U. S. bank more than 500 U. S. citizens obtained cash from Paris' Aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pride in Pawn | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Host Carter marshalled the Farley-Garner party out to his box at Arlington. Downs to witness the rebirth of horse-race betting in Texas. There an unforeseen unpleasantness occurred. While Host Carter was out making a bet, Governor Miriam (''Ma") Ferguson and her husband James, who was impeached as Governor in 1917, popped in uninvited to chat with Postmaster General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Texas Party | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Marie Thurber Judith Allen Bernard Fred (Ric) Page Mrs. Henry Wilson Dorothy Quincy Mrs. (Ma) Thurber Ethel Arden Mr. (Pa) Thurber Thaddeus Gray David Tuttle Jack Egan Tommy Mills Leon Janney...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/28/1933 | See Source »

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