(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.
Tammy
Definition:
(n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wisconsin elected the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin.
(2) What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night Anything by Tammy Wynette.
(3) Unfortunately, Tammy’s test wasn’t good enough, and her attempt resulted in a “head, a moustache and necktie”.
(4) Tammy Mercure ( tammymercure.com) is a photographer living in Nashville, TN , who has travelled widely in the region.
(5) But she concludes that the influence of money in politics is such that she needed to stay and fight it – raising the $7m in outside money spent against Tammy Duckworth in a single congressional election: "Changing the role of money in politics is really a very important motivator for me."
(6) Humans use stereotypes as a cognitive shortcut and we’re all prone to it,” said Tammy Campbell, author of the article to be published in the Journal of Social Policy .
(7) For more than 20 years Tammy has been leading trips like this, bringing people out into the kind of villages – rural, indigenous, thin on votes – that politicians didn’t visit, helping Quechua families earn a living from the hiking paths and food and stories that only they knew.
(8) Updated at 3.57pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Barack Obama speaks at Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally Making his first campaign appearance for four days, Barack Obama lands in front on a modest crowd at a chilly airport in Green Bay, where he's appearing with Tammy Baldwin , likely to be Wisconsin's next US senator if the polls are anything to go by.
(9) A subset of lymphocyte CD44 molecules is modified by covalent linkage to chondroitin sulfate (Jalkanen, S., M. Jalkanen, R. Bargatze, M. Tammi, and E. C. Butcher.
(10) Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, made history by becoming the first openly gay US senator .
(11) Then she angrily told Kroft: I'm not sitting here, some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette .
(12) US election 2016: Trump and Clinton watch votes as Florida 'razor close' – live Read more On a night of dashed hopes in the presidential election, Democratic morale was buoyed slightly by a Senate victory in Illinois, where congresswoman Tammy Duckworth beat the Republican incumbent, Mark Kirk.
(13) Among those joining the Senate will be Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, who made history twice over.
(14) Tammy Samede, as the principal named defendant, said outside the court: "This is not the end.
(15) sneers Tammy, 19, regardless of Hayley's growing ire.
(16) Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option Read more On Tuesday, Shorten was campaigning in Perth with Labor’s candidate for Swan, human rights activist and Indigenous woman Tammy Solonec.
(17) He's called Lee, and he's a smart bloke, keen to impress on me that he's a Guardian reader, and old enough to remember a time when the conceptual artist who has assembled him and 16 of his co-workers here today wasn't a conceptual artist: the brief but spectacular era when Bill Drummond was one half of the biggest-selling singles band in the world, the KLF, who made No 1 in 18 countries with a single on which Tammy Wynette sang about the Illuminati and ice cream vans; and the period before that when Drummond was a record company man, band manager and the subject of much music press debate about whether he was a genius or just a headcase.
(18) This summer has been historically bad at the box office: Fourth of July weekend was down a whopping 42% , despite the industry catering toward the international market (Transformers) and women (Tammy), and the US box office this month dropped over 50% from a year ago .
(19) John Cooper QC, representing the principal defendant, Tammy Samede, denies the camp has any or "any significant implications" for the rights and freedoms of others.
(20) The race between Tammy Baldwin , a longtime Democratic congresswoman who would be the first openly lesbian Senator, and Tommy Thompson , a former governor and Bush cabinet official, is very close, and it's set new records in Wisconsin for spending.