Word: mama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT MITCHUM, who croaks a hoked-up calypso for Capitol (Mama Look-a Booboo) and manages to sound as if he had half-swallowed a maraca...
...balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...
...Mama from the Train (Patti Page; Mercury). Tin Pan Alley takes a flyer at Pennsylvania Dutch with a humorous twist, e.g., "Throw mama from the train [pause] a kiss, a kiss." The joke is good enough-for a while...
...have always felt that audience comeback aids a lecturer," Boring said. "It always helps to know whether your students are awake or asleep, whether they are scribbling notes furiously, or reading the newspaper. But I pretend that the three red lights on the TV camera are Johnny and Mama and Papa, and I try to deliver my lecture to them...
Theology, too, can be as divisive in the fourth grade as in the 4th century. Youngsters often come to blows and tears over the location of Heaven or the existence of Hell. "Billy says if you dig far enough you will find the Devil. Mama, is it true that there is a Devil...