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Word: mamas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English officer's war bride. Invited for a visit by her grown daughter (whom she hasn't seen since infancy and who has been brought up a lady), she goes, intending to play the lady too. Daughter turns out to be a terrible prig, and since Mama can't even dress like a lady, let alone act like one, there's quite a todo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...play being farce, Mama cuts capers instead of crying into her pillow, and the capers get more & more farcical as the situations get more & more forced. But the play doesn't end as a farce. It ends as a fairy tale-with Mama, for no possible reason, bagging a great English diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Engaged. Comedian George Jessel, 42; and Lois Andrew (Lorain Gourley), 16, who once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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