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Word: papas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received the Nobel Prize for breaking down the atom if Junior had not objected that the award would overshadow his fame as a child prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Portland, Ore., reporters asked Moshe Menuhin, father of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, whether he had anyone in mind as a wife for his son. Said Papa Menuhin: "He will make the final choice himself. He has many girl friends, yes. I suppose the time will come when he will have to give himself away to one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

When the late Pope Benedict XV died, Correspondent Morgan had entered the death chamber by permission and kissed the slippered foot of the late Pontiff even before the fact of Death, ascertained by physicians, was officially certified by Cardinal Gasparri and made known with the words "Vere papa mortuus est." With his inquisitive yet reverent eyes. Observer Morgan noted that the Cardinal did not observe the quaint Papal ceremony for determining Death once used but since fallen into disuse: "The ceremony consisted in tapping the Pope on the forehead with a small silver hammer and calling him by his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Interesting Particulars | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...merely what they had been directed to do by the New Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mamma Spank | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...then head of Fascist films, Luigi Freddi, in the expensive Cinema City that II Duce has built outside Rome. To Filmtsar Freddi the idea of cinemoperas seemed "too big, too beautiful" for Italy. Piqued Dr. Senise went immediately to Vittorio Mussolini, who carried the plan just as quickly to papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mussolini's Roach | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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