Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, South State Street's Pacific Garden Mission, where in 1886 a Chicago ballplayer named Billy Sunday was "saved" and thus given his start as the most famed of U.S. evangelists, celebrated its 70th anniversary. "Ma" Sunday, 79, Billy's widow, was on hand for the celebration. Said she: "Billy would have liked to have been here tonight. He loved this place and always came back to it. That's his old piano, and that's the old pulpit. But I know he's Up There pitching ball for the mission...
...played softball on the corner lot with the gang, occasionally earned pocket money by sneaking onto neighboring golf courses to retrieve lost balls. He could outrun the gang-and the cops-every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is, a fervent Methodist who can be volubly graphic on the subject of hell. (A few weeks ago, when the Dodgers were not doing so well, Jackie wrote to his ma: "Quit praying just for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team...
...Ma Robinson regarded it as sinful for twelve-year-old Jackie to be playing baseball at Brookside Park on Sundays while the pews at Preacher Scott's church were half empty. "The devil is sending the people to watch you play," said Mama, "and he's also sending you to play." Jackie won her over by taking her to a few games. She kept quiet until he began playing football, a game which disturbed both her religious and maternal instincts. One Saturday three Glendale High School players piled on Jackie and cracked two of his ribs. She still...
...Joke, Ma'am. This week, in a limited gesture of good will, Gromyko took time out from a busy week to answer, in part, a list of written questions. These facts about him were revealed...
Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...