Word: papae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy"--8.15 o'clock. The Papa of the Mama songs...
...their own U.S.-born children. Probably Playwrights Gropper and Siegel felt they had to make a comedy out of it, so in Act III, Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household. As diversified Jewish types, Actors Sam Mann, Clara Langsner, Muni Wisenfrend, and Luther Adler write whole life histories into feeble, broken lines, and it is in their creative work that the play's chief virtue lies...
...Adult-infantilism is our chief deficiency as a people." The symptoms are clubbiness, boasted possessions and achievement, love of making rules (laws) and breaking them, suggestibility (advertising) conformity (fashions), fads, seriousness at play (bald golfers "like children playing Papa and Mama"), love of praise, extremes in speech ("marvelous", "wonderful"), calling wives "the girls' and husbands "the boys", short- lived curiosity, emotional unbalance and shallowness, limitation of social intercourse to personalities and amusements. The causes are: coddling parents ("They were allowed to meet the hazards of life") prosperity through science; mass education, to the neglect of culture. A result...
Telegram. A few hours later Mrs. Ruff received at her home in Woodmere, L. I., a telegram from her husband: "Papa kidnaped. No danger. Expect release today." Distracted, Mrs. Ruff sought her mother, Mrs. Rosenthal. She, courageous, left at once, alone, for Mexico City...
...Spaniards first met this valuable esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...