Word: papa
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...merely amusing aspect of it is the use of some words alien to my normal vocabulary. It just happens that 'papa,' for example, is a word which my family recognizes as one I dislike and forbid them to use; and now, when they read in your book of my using this word for my own father, they laugh quite...
...story is told of his father's being suddenly ousted from the Italian Legation at Peking by a new Government at Rome because his policies did not please the new Administration. De Martino papa, forced to earn his living in the Orient, where he had had long experience, did so by writing for U. S. newspapers...
...Martino papa. He earned his living by writing...
...that is, who was in a position to have it changed or to mention the mistake to those who might. Imagine the countless distinguished foreign visitors who have been escorted in honor through the gates of the Academy, and whose second alphabet is heraldry. The permanent twinkle that possessed Papa Joffre's eye as he returned to New York down the Hudson at last finds explanation in the "goods" he had on General Pershing and his fellow graduates...
...these things, he rejoiced, dashed out of the Grand Hotel at Venice, jumped into a waiting gondola and was slowly "gondoled" to the railway station, where he dashed to a train which took him to Rome. At Rome, he dashed to the Vatican, paid his respects to Il Papa, saw many Italian notables, was interviewed by many journalists. Next day, he dashed from his hotel, bumped along the cobblestones of Rome in a rickety taxi. At the station, he boarded a train which rushed him to Naples. At Naples, he shot up a gangplank on to a ship which started...