Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds which went to Norristown were one more sign of how the artistic wind is blowing. U.S. designers are busy turning out imitation Pennsylvania Dutch napkins, tablecloths, furniture, dishes. Manhattan's Theater Guild is busy rehearsing a Pennsylvania Dutch play (Papa Is All). U.S. advertising artists are using Pennsylvania Dutch tulip designs as borders for cosmetic ads. Every big Manhattan department store has stocked its shelves to cope with the trend. Most of the Pennsylvania Dutch bric-a-brac now sold commercially might bring blushes to the face of a good Mennonite, Dunkard or Amish. But U.S. housewives have...
...Paul Drake. In Greenville, Tex., the H. B. Ducks named their new son Donald. Near Red Wing, Minn., the towboat Herbert Hoover pulled the Franklin D. Roosevelt off the rocks. In Omaha, joke-weary Bovio Palucca asked court permission to change his last name to Parke. In Manhattan, Alfred Papa became a papa...
Jacob was never much. His mother died of consumption when he was very small. Papa Djugashvili (who later called himself Stalin) used to try to toughen up little Jacob's lungs by blowing pipe smoke in his face. So Jacob took up smoking before he was ten; and his father had to beat him for that...
...Papa Joe tried to make an engineer of Jacob, but Jacob was a lazy fellow. He would not study at technical school. Papa Joe is said to have said, "If you do not want to be an engineer, be a cobbler"-and packed Jacob off to an obscure corner of Georgia, where Papa Joe's own papa had been a cobbler...
...Papa did just that. OPM responded to the Ickes blast by repudiating Mr. Kellogg and his optimism, said he must have spoken "in his private [non-OPM] capacity," since "this office is not in agreement. . . . On the contrary, representatives have been . . . developing a program to provide additional power...