Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago...
...shoot old Gran'ma fust...
...been a good ole Gran'ma...
...liquid such as black petroleum. As the petroleum heats, it rises to a reservoir, from which cool petroleum then descends into the heating element by gravity. As the reservoir gets hotter, it can be used for cooking, generating steam and even refrigerating (by the absorption method). In a large ma chine, heat gathered during sunny days will last usefully through several cloudy days...
This week U.S. radio script-writing took a short shuffle away from the tradition of heartthrob and supermanliness and toward the amiable vulgarity of Ring Lardner. The show is WOR-Mutual's Fight Camp, a good-natured yarn about a sturdy widow named Ma Corbett (Blanche Ring) who conditions pugs with one hand while keeping them away from her pretty daughter with the other...