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Word: mamas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something about you, mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Brakeman | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...later the Postmaster General had another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte di Savoia at Quarantine. "Who's there?" demanded a woman's voice when Jimmy pounded on a stateroom door. " "It's us, mama, and oh gee, you ought to see my report card. It's got two stars on it. Hey, let us in, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Proud Pleasures | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly fresh bread and some wilted oranges and vegetables. She was thin, dirty, sunburned, weak but otherwise sound. Her first words: "I want my mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Snatch Findings | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned him. he was immediately surrounded by friends and neighbors, was buying round after round of drinks. Hours later he remembered he had not paid for the cup of coffee he was reaching for when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Anonymous Millionaires | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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