Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post: "If you lived here and ma twice as much you wouldn't have to pay any income...
...village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...
...concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born...
...particular French sauce. Thus his opera L'Heure Espagnole and his descriptive orchestral works Bolero, Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement in Ma Mere I'Oye reflects Oriental idioms; a violin sonata is based on American "blues." Though a brilliant orchestrator and a resourceful stylist, he was not a great originator...
...Japanese planes with chattering ma-chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when...