Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South carolina's big team went north for the first time, upset Villanova, 7 to 6. First scandal of the year concerned Tulane's captain, Nollie (''Papa Nollie") Felts. Someone charged that he had played professional baseball before he went to college. While the matter was being investigated, Tulane, without Felts, drubbed the Texas Aggies. 26 to 14. Pop Warner's new Stanford team used a bewildering collection of reverses, double-reverses, spinners, laterals and forwards to muddle Oregon State in one of the longest games on Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess...
Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...
...named Thomas Patrick Morris, 52. unemployed Brooklyn housepainter, told the court an astonishing story : That he is the son of Ella Wendel's brother, the late John Gottlieb Wendel. Speaking laboriously (he suffers from angina pectoris) Claim ant Morris said he was the issue of a secret marriage of "Papa" Wendel (always supposed to be a bachelor) and one Mary Ellen Devine of Edinburgh, in New York City; that he had been born in Dundee whither his mother fled after quarrels with "Papa" Wendel; that she left him in care of foster parents (Morris...
...proof he submitted a book (The Blockade of Phalsburg) which he said "Papa" Wendel had given him in 1901 in Dundee. On the flyleaf was written a record of the marriage and birth, signed by John G. Wendel. On the back flyleaf was a will bequeathing all John Wendel's property to his son, Thomas Patrick Mor ris Wendel. Also Morris submitted a pair of huge shoes with inch-thick gum soles which he said "Papa" Wendel once wore...
Arriving in Manhattan in 1906, said Claimant Morris, he accidentally encountered "Papa" who took him to the family mansion on Fifth Avenue. He heard Sis ter Ella tell "Papa": "Get out and take your brat with you." Said the "brat" (age 26): "To hell with you; you're all a pack of nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about...