Word: mama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendants manipulated her throat muscles until she was able to utter intentional, intelligible sounds. Playfully, they used the same methods to make one of her pet dogs, a Great Dane, "speak" the word "mama" in asking for tidbits...
...Maid's Tragedy; 4, Ezra P. Dillworthy; 5, 6, 8, The Sextet from Lucia (applied as group of six); 9, Pour lo Sport; 10, 11, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; 17, The Divine Duo; 19, The Poor Nuts; 20, K. K. Rockne; 21, Anthony and Cleopatra; 22, Mama's Boys; 23 to 26, Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston; 42, Centaur; 43, O. Henry (group of two); 44, Paavo Ritola...
...Mama tells me I must work as well as play...
Creators of comic strips have done much with the Sunday Night idea; what could be better material? Papa in his stocking feet; Mama in a temper; horrible noises rising around from huge-mouthed canary birds, thrown vases, dying pet; "Awk," "Tweet-Tweet," "Glub-Glub," "Plunk," "Zowie...
Last week A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer of radio apparatus, proposed to substitute for the comic stripper's idea of Sunday night another vision-that of a smiling Mama, Papa, infant, listening to the sounds that issue from an Atwater Kent radio. And the sounds, too, would be different. In place of the comic stripper's unnamable babble, would ring the voices of Louise Homer, Anna Case, Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them...