Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that he has little control over the welfare and fortunes of his famed five daughters, Yvonne, Emilie, Annette, Marie and Cecile. The Ontario Provincial Government has never been seriously concerned over the other seven living Dionne young, but has kept the Quintuplets in separate, guarded quarters. Last month Papa Dionne demanded a general inquiry by the Ontario Government into the handling of the Quintuplets' affairs by strong-willed Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Judge J. A. Valin and Percy D. Wilson, his fellow members on the board of guardians. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn flatly turned down Papa Dionne...
Last week, however, Papa Dionne was appeased. After an all-day conference between him and other guardians, an agreement was reached. The main provision was the construction of a new home to be paid for by the Quintuplets, under which all the Dionnes will be reunited. Said jubilant Papa Dionne after the conference: "That's the first time I was given any satisfaction...
...thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...
...enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets involved in so many affairs that neither he nor the reader can keep them straight...
...Pasquier Chronicles contains incidents and implications that Galsworthy would not have touched with a ten-foot pole, it also contains ironic flashes equally foreign to the Englishman. Papa Pasquier, with his tempers, girls and moralizing lectures, studying to be a doctor in his middle age, buying automobiles that he cannot drive or pay for, lecturing strangers for their impoliteness in yawning in public, messing up the affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author...