Word: pere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...
Chesapeake & Ohio (13,000 mi.) would add to its Nickel Plate, Erie and Pere Marquette, control of Lehigh Valley (to be purchased for $35,000,000 from Pennsylvania which would retain trackage rights). This system's other lines would include Bessemer & Lake Erie (from U. S. Steel Corp.), Wheeling & Lake Erie, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...Pere Marquette...
...deer antlers, varying in size from the enormous caribou moose down to the little wood brocket with antlers one and one-half inches long, includes two heads of Shomburg's deer, of which there are not more than six examples in existence, and two heads of the rare Pere David's deer, of which the last known living examples are on the Duke of Bedford's estate in England...
Shaw saves the second act with his usual entertaining conversation and a minimum of preaching. The Doolittle pere, played by the enthusiastic Mr. Dudley Digges, is a thoroughly adequate disciple of the "undeserving" poor, while Higgins and Colonel Pickering in the persons of Messrs. Cabot and Waram stand by in due admiration for the Shavian doctrines the jubilantly impecunious father of Eliza propounds...