Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look into my eyes," Princess Margaret ordered a startled dancing partner not long ago. "I am looking into them, Ma'am," he stammered. "Well," said Margaret, "you're looking into the most beautiful eyes in England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...
...dental practitioner gets the whole blooming family--Ma, Pa and the children--coming to him year after year. Have a measuring stick in your office. Measure the brats and weigh them every time they come in. Get ma's and pa's medical history. You'd have a genetic history of every family, and among you you'd accumulate a body of data vastly superior to any in existence...
Charlie sold 18 people, 14 of them women, half of them young and unattached. Of the four males one was a three-year-old boy. They boarded the Pasado Mañana, ("The Day After Tomorrow," Charlie explained) at San Pedro one morning four weeks ago, and were dismayed...
...committee of Frederick M. Flalkow '51 has already signed up 120 Harvard volunteers for the donations on Monday and Tuesday, Ma 2 and 3. The goal is 200 pints...