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...busy propheteering for Moral ReArmament to write his stockbroker father oftener than every six weeks (and then in letters "full of religious fervor"), elegant little British Davis Cup Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin suffered public paternal rebuke. Cried Austin pere to London's press: "I have not answered his letters because there is nothing I can usefully say. I have been told I ought to be proud of Bunny for his good work. I should be much prouder if I were taking him to Buckingham Palace to receive...
After the war another member of the Pernod dynasty, Jules, whose firm was called Pernod Pere et Fils, concocted an aperitif that tasted much like absinthe but was less bitter, contained no wormwood. This he called Pernod Anise. In 1920 a M. André Hémard produced a something that could scarcely be distinguished from Pernod Anise and called it L'Amourette. Frenchmen took to it delightedly. By 1928 the original firm of Pernod Fils was back in the business, and all three makers of wormwoodless absinthe were united in the Société des Etablissements Pernod...
...telegram was signed by Charles C. Burlingham '79, a friend of La Guardia's who had persuaded him to speak at the Senior dinner and who apparently thought that it was Marvin pere, not Marvin fils, who was running the open meeting following the Senior dinner...
...France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...