Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years Ma Lester, in Tobacco Road, has said to her rapscallion husband : "You're a sinful man, Jeeter Lester, and you're going to Hell." Claiming that he had her fired for refusing to shout "Hell" at the top of her lungs, Ann Dere, who had played Ma for two years, sued James Barton (Jeeter...
...southern Suiyuan, Captain Carlson visited famed Manchurian Leader General Ma Chan-shan, now carrying on guerrilla warfare near the border of Inner Mongolia. General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing...
...arbitration treaty of 1929): 1) the question whether it has complied with international law ("It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the Government of Mexico has not complied"); 2) the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more "ma...
...Bassett. When he was younger, in Montana, he had killed three other people. He had been disguised as a clergyman at the time, which must have given State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley quite a start. When she was taken to Earl and taxed him with his crimes. Earl said, "Ma, do you feel all right?" But two days later he confessed, too. The State Parole Board let Mrs. Smith out five days early, and she went to Seattle with State Police carrying shovels, to see if she could help them dig up a piece or two of James Bassett...
Born in Kenosha, Wis., Orson before the age of ten was a professional actor, ma-ing $25 a day dressed up as Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Marshall Field's. At twelve, in the progressive Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill., Orson was staging his first production of Julius Caesar-in which he played the Soothsayer, Cassius and Marc Antony with relay-race technique...