Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin, a dipsomaniac widow by whom Cleveland had had an illegitimate child. Republicans intoned: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Democrats ghoulishly chiseled out the date of birth on Elaine's son's tombstone, then hinted that Blaine had married his son's mother under compulsion...
...evening last week German Ambassador Franz von Papen turned up at an official ball in Ankara, just as President Ismet Inönü arrived. While the band played the national anthem, Istiklal Ma-schi, and all the guests stood at attention, Ambassador von Papen tactlessly marched into the ballroom at the head of his delegation. Next morning he rushed off to Berlin, and Ankara buzzed with talk of German pressure on Turkey...
...want to act with Tracy," she said but before more than an eyebrow could be raised, "because he acts from within. Muni has the same quality." Miss Robson is going to play Ma Baxter in "The Yearling," opposite Tracy this Spring...
Last week Old Bo-Bo brought his Pa, his Ma and his three sisters up from Hartsville, S. C. to watch him play in his first World Series. Father Newsom had never seen a World Series game, had only once in his 68 years been in a big-league ball park. With characteristic aplomb, Old Showboat predicted that he would win two World Series games. "Yeah, I'll outpitch Derringer," he drawled...
...mild-mannered, chin-bearded little man who said those words in 1917 was Cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (rhymes with ma-mockers). A half-German Dutchman, Cartoonist Raemaekers "wrote" (his own word) charcoal drawings which stirred the world to fury against the brut ish Hun. He just didn't like Germans. When he arrived in Manhattan in 1917 to propagandize and work for Hearstpapers, Raemaekers said quietly: "It would be better - I know it is impossible, but still it would be better- if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...