Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question ... In San Diego, arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Betty Graydon on a dope-smuggling charge. David Hedrick was asked what he did for a living, replied: "Well, ma'am, lately I've been forging checks...
GREAT BRITAIN Of Making Princes When Queen Victoria wanted to make her German husband-to-be "King Consort" by Act of Parliament, her favorite Prime Minister, Melbourne, was shocked. "For God's sake, Ma'am," he cried, "let's have no more of it. If you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them." Years later (1857) the young Queen took matters into her own hands and created Albert "Prince Consort...
Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...
...ma'am, you know you're a delicate woman...
...factories only bewilders them. Huxley found that the only Western institution the Urubus could appreciate was Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which he was required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless...