Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home to take out the pins. Theola's parents rebelled, said that Theola would not go back to classes until she could do her hair as she pleased. Last week Judge Yates Hamm fined the Bartons $10 apiece for failing to send a minor to school. Snapped Ma Barton: "We're appointing you the legal guardian of our five youngest children to raise, to feed, to educate, to clothe and to care for according to your standards." Then the Bartons stalked off, leaving five wailing youngsters in court. The startled judge gave them 50? apiece as a soother...
...second anniversary of their sweep to power. The first thing the guests learned about Chinese Marxism was that when it came to lodging and victualing them, at bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class B was put up in spacious villas such as the outlying Sapphire Bright Farmstead, once the home of a rich family. Classes...
...Nicknames: "The Princess is always 'Ma'am' to you. But very privately to themselves, her friends refer to her as P-2 " (i.e., Princess...
...social pyramid was still intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...
...Universal-International has climbed out of the red largely on the strength of its Ma and Pa Kettle series designed for "what is insultingly known as the family trade." Each picture in the series costs about $500,000 to make, grosses some $2,500,000 mainly in small towns and neighborhood theaters...