Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First prize went to Pipe-Major Robert Reid, a tightly muscled Glasgow bagpipe-maker and veteran of two wars. Said he: "I would never have played the pipes if it hadna bin for ma father, but he was a stern mon and kept me to it ever since I was six years old." Pipe-Major Reid's twelve-year-old son is doing very well on the chanter, a pipe without the bag-but, said Reid, "he winna take...
...Johnny. His white cap cocked, Harry Lundeberg gave his considered opinion of "those phonies" in Washington. "I warned Schwellenbach and the WSB that when this union takes a strike vote it means it. Old sister Schwellenbach keeps calling me but he's wasting the taxpayers' money. Even Ma Perkins was better than him. We're not playing politics, we're counting our economic strength...
Then Sun Fo sent China's highly regarded Kuomintang economist, Ma Yinchu, the Generalissimo's old economics teacher (who was confined during the war for his criticism of the Central Government), on to Shanghai to continue the attack on "bureaucratic capitalism." Before such semi-official and private organs as the Chinese Institute of Banking Studies and the Chinese Institute of Agrarian Economics, Ma spoke of the concentration of capital in the Government and the use of public funds for private speculation in commodities and gold-a practice that makes the scandalous a routine matter in China today. Shanghai...
...before he got into the service, He was a bum when all is said and done. He would beat his ma and dad For suggesting it was bad To be a burglar on Sunday...
...Preacher Gudger," said Ma Conroy, "this here oldest gal o' mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...