Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This doctrine has not gone unnoticed in Mexico (or in other parts of Latin America). Many leading Mexicans will never forget or forgive the insulting treatment they have received in Texas. Said Mañana, a Mexican weekly: "The Nazis of Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas...
There's a papoose for ev'ry ma-moose...
...Fish tried to stop. But she pushed the lever too far the other way, and the car backed up, ran over the Negro again. This rattled Mrs. Fish. Again she pushed the lever forward too far, again ran over him. The Negro jumped up, yelled: "'Fore God, ma'am, you sure is goin' to run over me," dashed for his life around the corner...
That siren you heard the other noon was a squad car on the way to south Matthews to clear up a traffic jam in the hall caused by James Guinn Zea III describing bull fights as she is run off in Ma-hi-ko. The guy simply needs more room, than that for his descriptive narrating. Incidentally, wonder when he's going to start speaking good old United States again? . . . he and John Vlahos and Carl Fisher and Ed Weilepp...
Perla Siedle is known to U.S. doughboys as Kate Smith or Ma, to Britons as the Lady in White or the Soldiers' Sweetheart, to the Poles as the South African Nightingale. The wealthy daughter of a South African shipowner, she studied in Germany as a young woman, gave recitals years ago in both London and Manhattan. What Perla calls her "wharfside work" began three years ago when she was seeing off a young Irish seaman her family had entertained the day before. Across the water he yelled: "Please sing something Irish." Through cupped hands, Perla obliged with When Irish...