Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appraised of the situation, Nostalthia Smythe-Heatherstone, Radcliffe '48, remarked yesterday, "Why who does she, I mean that interloper, I mean that thing think she is; coming into our territory like that? So that's why I haven't had a ma . . . I mean a date in the past month...
...take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
...Shot" & "Ma." Gene Holman was pretty well bound to be an oilman. He was born in Texas, raised in the first excitement of its oil boom. His father, James...
...word in school. Later, he worked as a call-boy on the nearby Texas & Pacific Railway, and punched cows in the summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook, which Gene edited, said of him: "Quiet and un assuming but a living example...
...Fitzgerald: no man can face a crisis with his pants off, but a woman forgets about modesty if the fire is hot enough. Nevertheless he warned firemen not to be crude when rescuing ladies from bathtubs. "Don't just break down the door. Knock first and say, 'Ma'am, this is the fire department.' Then break down the door...