Word: papas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play as often as their ability entitles them to. Possibly she has a husband and family who cut into her career; possibly directors do not think she is good. The former are selfish and the latter are dense. In this picture, there is not much narrative. Poor old papa went to jail and for a while it seemed that daughter would wake up some morning and find that working girls do get into trouble. Papa was, of course, innocent; employer was honorable; daughter reaped the reward of virtue. And all of this is quite acceptable under the deft and decorative...
School for Wives. Leonard Merrick wrote a novel called The House of Lynch. Stripped of Mr. Merrick's literary insulation, the wires of the plot seem a bit bare and shiny. Struggling artist, rich wife. He won't take her money; she goes home to papa. She is lonely; gives away her money, returns to struggling artist...
...Castres, near Toulouse in the South, Premier Herriot responded to the Cardinals in an excellent imitation of "Papa" Poincaré's famed Sunday speeches. Stating that he had been described as "the ogre of sectarianism," he continued...
...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...
...already changed the word 'papa...