Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...
...Vardon Hall, a country estate. This simple fact wins him many enemies. The local gentry are snobby about Vardon Hall's comedown and sniffy about the artist types soon to take it over. The leader of the opposition is a huge "obscene parrot" of a woman named Ma Curry, who wanted to turn Vardon Hall into a hotel. As a kind of madam for a clientele whose tastes are right out of Krafit-Ebing, Ma Curry has a bit of dirt on the distinguished Bernard Sands and is waiting to smear him at the right moment...
This fresh insight into his own character shakes him. At the dedication of Vardon Hall he delivers a fumbling speech: "So much that has been written would have been better left unprinted." A coterie of his friends then stage a romp that confirms the worst suspicions of the natives. Ma Curry prepares to expose Sands, but before she can make a move, Sands threatens her with counter-exposures, and then dies of a heart attack...
Cardinal Sin. With Sands gone, the life goes out of Hemlock and After. Author Wilson adds an epilogue in which a strangely recovered Mrs. Sands splices up the novel's loose ends and packs Ma Curry and her crew off to jail...
...Ma Khin San, 18, was beautiful and beloved by the prosperous young trader Aung Thein of Pegu. Ma Khin Than, 21, her sister, was beautiful but blind. If San were married, mused her widowed father U Po Sein, what then would become of Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with...