Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tube, and the man who can tune in on exactly the right wave length automatically assumes the same power over the tot that Edgar Bergen holds over Charlie McCarthy. Given just the right nudge, Junior, even at distances up to 3,000 miles, will open his mouth and say, "Mamma...
...year old, have to sister 13 and 15. Our daddy get drunk all the time. We are to move because the lady want her rent and our daddy give it all to the sloon . . . we don't have much to eat and my mamma sick and can't work and she has no clothes. She has to go bair footed . . . Maybe if the sloon man reads my letter he won't sell daddy any more whisky, and then daddy won't come home and beet my mamma and us kids any more...
...befo' this girl an' man got to de house, she said, 'You ask my mother for me, when you get home.' The man tol' her, 'All right' . . . An' he went back to de girl an' she say, 'What did mamma tell you?' He looked at Irene-her name was Irene-an' here what he said ..." Then, his coal-black face gleaming fiercely and his horny hands scratching his twelve-string guitar, the murderous old Minstrel Lead Belly would sing...
...police sirens moaned close by, Parisi cried: "Mamma mia, mamma mia, let me out of here." He jerked open the door and ran. Parisi dropped out of sight for ten long years. Last autumn the Pennsylvania State Police found him at last; he was napping on a bed surrounded by crucifixes and holy candles in his hideout house in the anthracite coal fields...
...like the name Firehouse Five Plus Two. On the stand they wore red shirts, white suspenders and ancient leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...