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  • "And the roses too -- all of them -- see mamma, just cut from the bushes with the buds all left on, and immensely long stems -- Mamma, these must have cost an immensity! --"

    Queechy Susan Warner 1852

  • "An 'this is the joke on mamma: you know that tailor that let papa's dress-suit' way, 'way out; well, Mamma thinks that tailor must think she's crazy, or somep'm 'cause she took papa's dress-suit to him last Monday to get it pressed for this card-party, an she guesses he must of understood her to tell him to do lots besides just pressin' it.

    Seventeen 1915

  • "An 'this is the joke on mamma: you know that tailor that let papa's dress-suit' way, 'way out; well, Mamma thinks that tailor must think she's crazy, or somep'm 'cause she took papa's dress-suit to him last

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Hanson has earned the moniker Mamma P on the set of Celebrity Apprentice after singer Deni Hines nicknamed her.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • OUR LAST SUMMER by ABBA as seen in Mamma Mia, as interpreted by two little people who happen to LOVE the soundtrack to the movie, and ABBA music in general.

    ABBA – as interpreted by little people – TAKE TWO « Bored Mommy 2009

  • Preferably they'll be human (Meryl Streep and Julie Walters form a conga-line of shoulders to cry on in Mamma Mia!) but if not, you can always witter into a tape recorder in lieu of a voiceover.

    Film-inspired holidays: The Journey of self-discovery Catherine Shoard 2010

  • First came the ABBA renaissance in "Mamma Mia!", then came love by way of the Beatles in "Across the Universe."

    Tobey Maguire Cranks It To Eleven For ‘Rock Of Ages’ Adaptation » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • Read the full story "Pfieffer in Mamma Mia and Hairspray" »

    Filmstalker: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • "Mamma is so feeble, I shall have to keep house, I suppose, and you must show me how, Polly," said Fan.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • Mamma is resolved that I shall do her credit, and we have spent the last two weeks driving about from milliners to mantua-makers, from merchants to jewellers.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

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