Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political goings-on of the Lone Star State for the past 20 years, and I cannot recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during that time. "Pappy" O'Daniel, James V. Allred, Dan Moody, "Pa" and "Ma" Ferguson, and several others have been elected Governors of Texas during the past two decades, but my frail and failing memory will not permit me to recall a Hobby as having been elevated to that exalted eminence...
...Magnificent Dope (20th Century-Fox) is home-grown Henry Fonda, playing another "Shucks, Ma!" role, which permits him to make one very interesting observation: laziness is the father of invention. His reasoning: In Piltdown days, thirsty cavemen had to run to the river for a drink, scurry back to their caves again. Go-getters didn't mind that chore, but some lazy caveman did. He invented the bucket...
...soldier's arm. The arm jerked into the air and the fingers stuck out stiff like red arrows. The soldier grew violent. The tiny Burmese girls were unable to hold him down. The surgeon held with one hand and cut with the other. The soldier moaned in Chinese: "Ma ma." It was pitiful to hear the Chinese calling his mother in the same sounds we use. The doctor, his body gleaming with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid him on the floor in an inside...
Died. Charles H. ("Duke") Wellington, 56, veteran cartoonist, creator (in 1914) of the still-existent Pa's Son-in-Law (Pa and Ma Splutterfuss and son-in-law Cedric); of pneumonia; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...Cleft Ma with the Meat Axe?", an original skit written and executed by the Grays Hall Boys, will be one of the highlights of the program, the show includes a number of original song hits by Oliver Filley...