Word: papping
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There was no evidence that Father Lugena had mistreated his boy. But it was only natural that he should feel some sympathy with another, more famed Hannibal parent, "Pap" Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...
...English or Greek professors to tread upon as they go to deliver a lecture on the "Use of the Infinitive in Chaucer," or "The Place of the Hammer in the Building of the Wooden Horse." It requires all his alchemy to turn such prosey matter into palatable pap for the undergraduate. The sweet, sad music of humanity has suddenly become rather blatant jazz. And in, addition all this about the Vagabond wandering as he listeth with no man for his master, caring only for the free life and indulging only in an occasional lecture because he likes it is fiction...
...Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought in the Northern army. With his family scattered, his property dwindling, his position gone, 01' Pap Vaiden went feebly to work again at his long-disused forge, and when Death struck him he would have died there alone if Quadroon Gracie had not happened along. In the arms of his unacknowledged daughter 01' Pap Vaiden died, furiously protesting...
...other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic. A little publicity is always a profitable thing especially when connected with such a worthy cause. Intensive propaganda of this type may fill the air with sound and fury for a short time...
...establishes that all Dominions do and must have the right to secede, then what becomes of Sir John Simon's report and the promises of the Viceroy, both committing Englishmen to the goal of Dominion Status for India? Thus far this mealy-mouthed phrase has been mere pap for Dominions full of local pride but with no real wish to secede - most Canadians will freely deny that they have the right to do so and all Englishmen will agree. Nobody really knows what "Dominion Status" means, but last week daughter South Africa was trying her best to make...