Word: miriam
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...ripsnorting shivaree. The Old Gray Mare Band of Brownwood blatted out The Eyes of Texas. Diva May Peterson sang Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, and the crowd stomped and whistled and let out an unearthly rebel yell. Then Miriam Amanda Ferguson, all gussied up in a black satin dress, stood up and took the oath as Governor of Texas...
...King Kong was an instant hit, and played before 120,000 persons-two-thirds of them white-in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Then, as now in London, heavyweight Jazz Singer Nathan M'dledle (pronounced Muh-dead-ly) played "the King." His girl was played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year-old Peggy Phango. From the beginning, the semipro chorus has been filled with carpenters, shop clerks, schoolteachers, messengers, housemaids, typists, even an X-ray technician...
...Tennistar Karol Fageros, 26, whose broken ribs were mending in a Youngstown, Ohio hospital, after an Ohio Turnpike collision between a truck and a chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman ever elected a state Governor (in Texas in 1924, after her late husband, Governor James Ferguson, was impeached for misuse of state funds), recovering in an Austin hospital after a heart attack...
...Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson was elected Governor of Texas in 1924, succeeding her husband, who was impeached and therefore ineligible for reelection. During the first of her two terms, she freed 3.600 convicts from the state penitentiary. In the early days of the New Deal, Florida's Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, served in Congress, later became Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, the first woman to head a foreign mission. The doughty Frances Perkins became F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor-the first woman Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence...
...every area of her life, the M.W. is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. This has been so since the days of Moses, when God smote Miriam for murmuring. If she's retiring, she's "backward"; if she's a leader, she's got her "nose in everything." If she is devoted to her family, she's ''making idols of her children"; if she's immersed in church work, she's "sacrificing her children...