Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sell Mamma. "But the problem dog food manufacturers still face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans...
...Valeria Cossati, the turning point came, she thought, when her husband jokingly began calling her Mamma. Somehow it made her feel that she had lost her youth and was also beginning to lose her identity...
Brekekekex, Koax. Impenetrable at first, Lallans becomes readable after a little practice, and the reader stumbles through even such sheep-pasture poetry as: "Meantime the doitit gomerils sat,/ the hinnie-darlin mamma's pets/and gowpt like gowks." (Murray's equivalent verse: "Each sat at home, a simple, cool,/ Religious, unsuspecting fool/ And happy in his sheeplike...
...orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony as a winner of a statewide young pianists' competition, played Tchaikovsky's B Flat Concerto. The same year he played in Carnegie Hall as the Texas winner of the National Music Festival's nationwide competition to uncover talented junior soloists. Mamma Cliburn ferried him out to California to play for Jose Iturbi, and Iturbi promptly proclaimed him "the most talented youngster I've heard...
...with mamma's sighs, the sofa bed, and the kitchen-wall stains from "the smoke of a thousand lamb chops," Bill decides to quit college, quit home and go into business for himself. With Bill, venture capital is a question of whom to borrow from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...