Word: papas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
Mama Loves Papa. A wobbly little comedy about marriage appeared under this awkward title and was not very fervently applauded. The two young things of the title phrase stumbled innocently and separately into a wicked cocktail party in the city. It took two acts of explanation to restore them to each other's arms. The presence in the cast of John E. Hazzard, bibulous and bald comedian, was often helpful...
Castle Square--"Abie's Irish Rose", at 8.15: There's always this little darling waiting for us at the end of the paragraph. Papa can't spank you now, he's busy...
...Kindergarten and Elementary College of Chicago published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...
...YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste as was her "Mr. A." By better luck than...