Word: papas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time there were three bears-a papa bear, a mama bear and a baby bear. Papa bear liked his porridge very, very hot. Mama bear liked her porridge "just hot." Baby bear liked his porridge only warm. But it was quite impossible for cook to make three kinds of porridge every morning. So cook made up a batch of porridge that was the same temperature as if she had made some veryvery hot porridge, some just-hot porridge, some only-warm porridge, and mixed them together. Papa bear grumbled that it wasn't right. Mama bear...
...diet of a papa bear, a mama bear, a baby bear...
Johann Buddenbrook. The son of the founder of the firm. "A kind papa, a worthy man." A German of the old 18th Century school who "never in all his life has worn a pair of trousers." Able in business, he has raised the Buddenbrooks to their important position. What if he is a rough diamond, who sometimes forgets himself and relapses into low German dialect before the fine guests...
...kind papa, a worthy...
...bare facts are interesting enough, but the dialogue and the acting carry the whole to the peak of success. Frank Lalor, as Papa, has a way of making his face do his acting for him. It is he, almost as much as his junior partner, who makes the thing go. June Bradley, as Daughter, does well in a rather less interesting part; while Lucin Moore, as Mama, improves on the usual type of dowager lady...