Word: mama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backyards of two much-curlycued 18901sh houses, and it tells of people who moved into them when they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of them with husbands of 67 or more, the fourth an old maid. Youth is represented by a mama's boy of 40 who has been keeping company for more than two lustrums with a fading moron of 39. To add to its handicaps, the play has scarcely a shred of plot...
Princess Wilhelmina's life was mostly work and little play. At ten her father died and she became Queen, with her able mother acting as Regent. On her first appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam she is said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution...
...time to paint farm and hunting scenes, recently did a mural through the SFA (see below) for the post office at La Follette, Tenn. Last month she bore her first child, a son. Dahlov got her own name from a song the Zorachs used to sing to her about "Mama, Daddy love 'um." Her older brother Tessim's name came from "Infinitesimal." Her own son survived his christening with a simple "Bobby-Bill...
...convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...
First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...