Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
Latin shrugs greet any query as to where Papa Mussolini and Père Laval earned all that money. Both have airtight alibis...
...interested to see whether it would cap one defiance with another, or whether the President was justified in his confidence that, frightened by its previous temerity, the House would return to its normal obedience. TVA's Morgan and Lilienthal fairly gurgled with satisfaction to find how completely right Papa Roosevelt, experienced in training children, was in his forecast...
...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...
...many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling. Gömbös asked the advice of the venerable papa of Hungarian politics. Regent Admiral Nicholas de Horthy. Thereupon he accepted the challenge but had his seconds explain to Eckhardt's seconds that he, Gömbös, had never said what Bethlen claimed he had said. This satisfactorily stopped that duel but it set off two others...