Word: papae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, briefly, was as follows:--Daughter returns from Chicago, with society gentlemen in tow. Papa's junior partner (Grant Mitchell) puts on bright clothes, and cuts out society gentleman, with the aid of an artificially colored past. The past becomes the present in the person of a motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic...
Three days later the Public Consistory was held in the Hall of Benedictions, which is above the façade of St. Peter's basilica. At 10 o'clock in the morning cheers of 'Viva il Papa announced the advent of His Holiness, who was borne into the hall in the sedia gestatoria, which was carried on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarit...
Siegfried Wagner, son of the great composer, published in Stuttgart a volume of Erinnerungen (Recollections). It is a rambling memoir, as the name implies, written by a genial, chatty man from the standpoint of one who knew the famous Richard as kind papa, and the stern Cosima as affectionate mamma...
...Greek, English, German guides in Paris. According to Liberte, tourists at Versailles hear tirades against the Treaty of Versailles; tourists on the battlefields hear of the valor of the German troops. Liberté asserts that guides tear up Allied flags in the cemeteries and sell strips as souvenirs. Thus " Papa Poincaré " has another German menace to combat...
...bathtub had geraniums in it). But in spite of these blessings and the consolations of Christian Science as well, Amy May's happiness was incomplete, for she felt that Annabelle Lee should have a husband and she didn't know where to get him. Fortunately, Papa Jonas, who lived downstairs, was a puppet master and the difficulty was solved by the marriage of Annabelle Lee to Mr. Aristotle, the veteran clown-philosopher of Papa Jonas' puppet troupe. Alas, the marriage turned out unsuccessfully! Poor Mr. Aristotle, forlorn boaster that he was, discovered how much more difficult...