Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isolated cottage where for ten years she carried out her great experiment. Mother, servant and teacher all in one, Virginia brought up Appius with firmness and faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas in pidgin English. But when Appius and some little boys got their first sight of each other over the garden wall they called him an ape; Appius had a relapse to the jungle. After that Virginia's faith in her experiment became desperate...
...entered Yale at the age of fourteen in the year 1803. James Fennimore Cooper is particularly remembered as the man who conceived "Leatherstocking Tales". Little boys run wildly whooping about the backyard waving wooden tomahawks and loudly protesting to an imperious voice from the kitchen window, "But mama, we're only burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish ten Wish" which appears to be a bit whimsy. He was the first great American story...
...Mama never does anything outside our home. She could not come. She is so busy. She embroiders...
...Mama Inez" and "Muchacha" (Brunswick)?Vincent Lopez makes the best Cuban rumba records. Honors go to his percussives...
Last week while music publishers were haggling over Cuban copyrights, Leader Reisman returned from Havana with an other sheaf of Cuban scores. In Havana he had a rest from The Peanut Vendor, which is seldom played there. But he heard many times Ay Mama Inez, Te Odio (I Hate You), Me Odias (You Hate...