Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of all," says daughter Katrin, "I remember Mama," Mama is kind, firm, and resourceful, and has four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...
...Mama's Boy. Holtz has been married twice but, as in the case of George Jessel, Milton Berle and the Marx Brothers, the best known member of his family is his mother, a shrewd, picturesque old lady with whom he lived for years between marriages. Whenever his mother met one of his new flames, she purred: "She's nice. But I don't think she's as pretty as the last...
...wrote Bedtime Story for Maurice Chevalier and Mama Loves Papa in collaboration with Arthur Kober; for 20th Century he wrote The House of Rothschild and Moulin Rouge, both highly successful pictures. By 1935, when Fox merged with 20th Century, Johnson was already regarded as a fairly important asset. By the time he decided to go independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered...
...young girl, perhaps 15, sat perfectly still and rigid, stretched out in an armchair. As I stepped across her legs, she did not move or speak. All her words were in her shocked eyes. The rest of the family-Papa, who had put his savings into this farm, Mama, a scraggly woman who was calmly assembling the dejeuner, a leggy boy of 16 or so and a baby girl-chattered in the passageway, and fell silent only when a soldier passed or a shell burst...
...consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...