Word: papas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...
...Tommy, all great men are modest. Tell papa that Ethel really did most of your arithmetic. There's the good modest...
Paramount's Papa...
...Mamma, that man looks just like Papa,' said the little daughter of a minister to her mother, as she pointed to a Sing Sing prisoner who was doing ten years for grand larceny in connection with a confidence game. This was amusing to me, and exceedingly embarrassing to the mother, as the minister had previously insisted to me that criminals were physically marked and that he could pick them out of a crowd at a glance...