Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Smitty grabbed the royal thigh and held the Queen in her automobile. To get a picture of Rachmaninoff he played Chopsticks on the master's piano until he gave up and posed. To Schumann-Heink he said: "Show your teeth, mamma...
...plaintively asserted that this was merely what they had been directed to do by the New Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...several months more she was in bed moving her hands and feet aimlessly, often whining and crying like a very young child and the only articulation one could understand was her frequent calling for 'Mamma, Mamma,' although her mother had passed to the 'great beyond' some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
Vexed at such snubs, Mr. & Mrs. Wright Sr. vowed that their son should remain married. Daughter Mary Belle, called in the Press "The Do-As-You-Please Bride," described her marriage as "simply scrumptious." "I don't care if Mamma is a darn good lawyer," declared Mary Belle, "Edward and I will hire a lawyer...