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...Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...
...Mah Preacher." Ambition helps, of course-and so does a degree of ruthlessness. Though Moyers is a natural loner with the sort of drive that would probably propel him to the top in any milieu, even his closest rivals for the President's favor have never accused him of using his influence unfairly. One official, who admitted recently to having "goofed one," said that Moyers went in to tell the President about it-without a word about who had actually made the blunder. "Johnson gave him a terrific chewing out," he recalls. "Moyers just stood there and took...
Others have noted Moyers' capacity for absorbing a blistering rebuke from Johnson with the clinical detachment of a volcanologist measuring an eruption. He can do so because he is uncommonly sure of himself. There is an easy communion between the two men. Johnson kiddingly refers to Moyers as "mah Baptist preacher." Moyers, who was ordained to become a teacher, not a preacher, kids Lyndon right back. As the President tells the story, Moyers one day was saying grace before a White House dinner in such a low voice that he could hardly be heard. "Speak up, Bill!" bellowed Lyndon...
...Edie modulated her voice to a slow Pedernales drawl:'"I've been spending quite a lot of time in Washington," she began, "since Mr. Johnson and I became President." And how does she see her role now? "I want to say in all humility that ah made mah husband what he is today-rich." It was great. But was it good enough to get her a repeat of last March's dinner at the White House...
...shoddinesses are particularly embarrassing in Tamburlaine. The play's ranting scenes are so close to being ridiculous that even a minor gaffe can make the audience explode with laughter. When Neil Johnson makes the emperor Callapine look and sound like Richard Nixon (leaning forward, shoulders hunched, slurring words like "mah empahr") or when Percy Granger as a lord assigned to protect Queen Zenocrate, gives her up to Tamburlaine ("We yield unto the, happy Tamburlaine"), in a voice that sounds like a public-address system announcer's, the play breaks down completely for a moment...