Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, and be exceedingly glad an amalgam of Psalm 100:1 with Matthew 5:12.
mark the unsuspecting victim of a hoax, or con game.
married beneath her married below her social station.
Masons a men's charitable service organization, founded in 1797.
master's voice part of a slogan affixed to RCA Victor radios and phonographs along with a picture of a dog listening to sounds coming from the horn of a victrola.
Matthew: twenty-fifth chapter, thirtieth verse through the forty-sixth one of Jesus' sermons in which he reminds the faithful that he will return from a heavenly throne to question people about their charity toward "the least of these" — that is, the hungry, thirsty, alienated, naked, and imprisoned.
mercados Mexican grocery stores.
Mickey Mouse Walt Disney's star of animated cartoons, who debuted in 1928.
Montgomery Ward a department store chain that offered mail order service from large catalogues that were sent to the public.
moors grassy wastelands, often the misty, mysterious settings in Gothic fiction.
morocco-bound covered in fine leather.
Mount Nebo the elevation from which Moses observed the Promised Land, as described in Deuteronomy 34:1-4.
mourners' bench a front row reserved for people troubled about illness or personal problems. Mourners sat before others who might see their suffering and join in their prayers.
mumbledypeg a game requiring participants to flip a knife so that the blade sticks in the ground, often between the toes of the player.
my brother was far away on a raft on the Mississippi that is, Bailey was immersed in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Naked I came into the world, and naked I shall go out. an approximation of Job 1:21, which is echoed in Ecclesiastes 5:15.
Nat Turner leader of a slave revolt on August 21, 1831, which ended with the deaths of sixty white victims and the execution of Turner and sixteen other insurrectionists.
Nisei second-generation Japanese-American citizens, or sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants.
now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity I Corinthians 13:13, the conclusion of Paul's essay on charity.
numbers runners petty street criminals who collect money from people betting on a lucky number.
open sesame a foolproof method, derived from the magic command that opens the door to the robbers' lair in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Owens Jesse Owens, son of an Alabama sharecropper, triumphed in track and field at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin against a background of Nazi racism, which favored the blue-eyed blonds of the Aryan race.
