(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
(3) A previous, tentative assignment based solely on indirect evidence [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J.
(4) In the preceding paper [Bairaktari, E., Mierke, D.F., Mammi, S., & Peggion, E. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] the conformational preferences of these peptides in the presence of SDS surfactant micelles, a mimetic for biological membranes, were examined.
(5) The circular dichroism spectra in these two media have the same shape, indicative of a similar preferred conformation [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J., Foffani, M. T., Peggion, E., Moroder, L., & Wünsch, E. (1987) Biopolymers 26, S1-S10].
(6) Mammy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Happily serving a white family: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind.
(7) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
(8) Gone is the general disdain for mammy cookie jars, Aunt Jemima dolls and pencils in the form of alligators eating black children - a motif used to promote the early tourist trade in Florida.
(9) These household objects "didn't really become a souvenir market until the late 20th century," according to Kenneth W Goings, a professor at Memphis University and author of Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping.
(10) Yet another common product is the mammy peg-board - a wall board with a picture of a mammy, hand to her head, announcing "I gots to Git" and the pegs indicating which groceries need to be bought.
(11) He went down on his knee again and sang "mammy" and the troops wept and cheered.
(12) Bidding on a mammy memo-holder, a large board with a picture of a mammy holding a pencil, with a memo-pad apron, had risen to $14.
(13) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.
Rammy
Definition:
(a.) Like a ram; rammish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not so much reasoned argument as, in Glaswegian parlance, a right good stairheid rammy .
(2) At the time, he expressed concern that the contest could become "a highly emotive and deeply personalised public rammy [fight]" , with the dangers of lasting division becoming greater if the result was a very close one.
(3) 3.02pm BST 2 min: "Not sure who the QPR mascot is, but he (or she) will need to go some to beat Rammie the Ram, who was the star of the semi-final for me," says Simon McMahon.