Word: mama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grab a Tom Collins," the Aged Sage said to his thirsty disciple, "and everything will be just Reich. The team has been looking Foster and faster. Mama and Papantones will be coming up to see us Rambour backs up the middle of the line. Jennison is a bit Small, but he's tough. It we can Pierson line and Springier into the secondary we'll be set. Of Dorsett might be better to have Herr boy in the line, but we'd have to Warner first. He'll be a Thornton their side all Dey no matter what he plays...
...share of parental troubles. Patsy Custis was a sick girl, subject to fits -she died at 17. Young John Custis, spoiled by a worshiping mama, ran to laziness; he preferred race horses and fancy clothes to studying at King's College in New York. With grim patience, his stepfather tried to set the boy right...
Bamu, a practical type, replied, "My brother Aliu has a bad toe." Bamu is contemptuous of her husband's pretensions, and apt to trot back to Mama's hut when he runs out of money. But Johnson loves her dearly. Even the thought of her makes him break into song...
Jimmy lay in state in an orchid casket covered with a rose blanket. There was a canopy from the door of the funeral home to the sidewalk, some fading pink flowers in the yard. "They're dying out," said Mama. "But they're still kinda nice for Jimmy." Mama held off the burial for eight days, but finally gave in this week. Said she: "I ain't in no hurry to rush him into the ground. I kept him out just as long as they...
...rest of Mama's plans were complete: Jimmy would be driven off to the cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...