Word: maing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor of a state so completely fallen under the away of his confidential secretary that a special session of the legislature is needed to remove her and unmesmerize him is noteworthy even in a day distinguished by such assaults on gubernatorial good taste as the battery of Texas Ma and Pa. Henry S. Johnson was governor of Oklahoma in name alone from the day when he appointed Mrs. O. O. Hammonds to the secretaryship, and she began the conversion of the governor to the cult of Rosicrucianism. Lacking the Fergusonian sanctitiy of the holy seal of matrimony, this union...
...great machine hurtled, dead weight, to the ground, half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination was dismissed...
...Just passing Point Lobos (Golden Gate). Love to Ma...
...course, appreciate the self-sacrifice that prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists...
...Second Reader contained more complicated animal stories, also some frightening ones ? big bears, fierce tigers ? and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree. In Dr. McGuffey's stories, children got bright new silver dollars when good, said "No, ma'am" to their mothers. Their rooms were "cham bers." Their dog was Rover. People went "down cellar...