Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...also penniless. For the past four months her two children have been sup ported entirely by their old nurse in a tiny apartment. Every week the children are told that papa has gone to the U. S., that maman is sick in a hospital...
...That Arlette Stavisky might see her children she was taken from jail in a prison van to a private hospital. There her foot was elaborately bandaged. In a private room she played happily with her little son and daughter". Yes, she said, maman looked thin because she was tired. Papa was still...
...ideals of Young Russia. In December 1932, there was the case of little Pavel and Fedor Morosov. Pavel & Fedor were Young Pioneers and they knew that their father, president of a local Soviet, was secretly in league with village kulaks. As a good Pioneer, Pavel promptly peached on papa but other villagers did not appreciate the children's rectitude. They tracked Pavel & Fedor to the woods, hacked their bodies to bits (TIME...
...their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...