Word: patriarchal
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Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin-the patriarch of the House, having served 17 terms. Still an old rebel. Tall, white hair, white beard, fair-spoken-the Progressives' candidate for Speaker. He considers himself the apostle of "True Republicanism...
What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
...this," cried Patriarch Ben, "is a waste of our manhood...
...Henry Vandyke, Wilson Democrat. Princeton patriarch. Reason: "In Defense of Religious Liberty...
...Salzburg, birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, rock of classicism, the Leningrad Operatic Studio, last week, ironically burlesqued his Bastien et Bastienne. That pastoral operetta he wrote when he was 12 (he died in 1791, at 35). It has three characters-the shepherd sweethearts and a patriarch. The Russians last week added 13 more and played the piece with machinery of production grossly exposed...