Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service and back to the homes which we love, but faced with nude "reality we believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to forget our personal desires and finish the hard, relentless job before us. The point of these two issues is that the Army should let go of Mama's apron strings, and get a little more determination to finish the war before thinking of the good old civilian days...
After her farmer-husband died, Mrs. Lessie Mills, of Fort Meade, Fla., took to babying the youngest of her five children. As a result, Jimmy Mills got to be known as "mama's pet," grew up so timid that he was afraid to go to bed at night unless his mother were close at hand...
...gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks him in the thick of battle. "Are you man or mouse?" Hope turns to the nearest mouse and asks, "Where's Mama...
...Harvardmen, but this latest of the 1944 season's period pieces can hardly be called memorable. John P. Marquand '14 has collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a good and a very funny play, which, unfortunately, for itself, follows closely in the wake of the smash hit, "I Remember Mama,' and cannot help but suffer decidedly by comparison...
Closer in tone to Our Town than to Life with Father, Mama is warm, humorous, sentimental, lightly nostalgic, more than slightly idealized...