Word: pater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plebiscite is held," in deciding what to do with the Saar. In Germany brownshirt wrath boiled when His Eminence Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, defied Nazis who demanded that he order prayers for immediate return of the Saar to Germany. Instead His Eminence pointedly ordered two Pater Nosters and two Ave Marias "for the good of Germany...
Metropolitan: "Judge Priest"--Will Rogers, who is rapidly becoming our favorite screen philosopher and pater familias, in a very pleasing story of life in a quiet little Kentucky hamlet where the chief topic of conversation is still the Civil War and those "damned Yankees." Anita Louise will make you wish that Hollywood were a bit more accessible...
...Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de coelis Deus, miserere nobis, Fili. Redemptor mundi. Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus sanctus. Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus sancte. Deus, miserere nobis. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis...
...lover has a hundred dollars to hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade-out is a sweetly murmured "Daddy... It seemed like such a beautiful road...but it was only..." The slimy scoundrel who debauched her is presumably...
...Pater, Early Work, Style," Professor Rollins, Emerson...