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  • Was he thinking of the freshly scandalous Rite of Spring or the kind of popular ragtime songs he heard in America with titles such as "Fat Li'l Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes"?

    Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review 2011

  • And that's how, if only in his Mammy's eyes, my cousin is Priest in Kilvarnet.

    Priest in Kilvarnet 2010

  • You can tell Wikipedia is better than the Encyclopedia Britannica because it says "Mammy's" instead of "Mumsy's" or something.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

  • My Southern grandmother, Mammy, always said that it was God's mark on me, a result of my mother getting shocked by lightning while turning on a lamp during a terrible electrical storm when she was seven months pregnant with me, right there in Mammy's living room.

    Trish Kinney: The Marks on Us 2009

  • Furious, Scarlett orders her back to Tara, but Mammy's retort paints a portrait of social change in one brushstroke: You kain sen' me ter Tara ness Ah wants ter go.

    "These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind." Ann Althouse 2009

  • When Robeson sings "Old Black Joe," he changes the title to "Poor Old Joe," but he has no qualms about singing about pickaninnies, dusky little snowballs, and "Mammy's kinky-headed baby boy."

    Paul Robeson in His Depression-Era Prime 2009

  • Though I laughed out loud when the Indie's review of 2006 had a picture of the original Mammy's boy Al Jolson next to an item about the Tory conference.

    Archive 2007-04-29 2007

  • She was tended to by a pair of sniffling women who took turns patting Mammy's hand gingerly, like she was the rarest and most fragile doll in the world.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • The walls of Mammy's room were covered with pictures of Ahmad and Noor.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Therefore, McCaig's Rhett reportedly pays no attention whatsoever to the goings-on of Scarlett: it's almost as if it never existed, except perhaps in one of Mammy's dreams or something.

    I Am Rhett Butler's Pillow RICHARD 2007

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