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Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion...
...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...
Please explain your authority for the use of the word "papeese" as plural for the word papoose (TIME...
Rookie Giebell had more than the Indian bats against him. A Ladies' Day crowd of 45,000 streamed into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium laden with eggs, eggplants, cauliflowers, fruit. They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose). As soon as the Tigers went on the field they were pelted from the stands. By the time Rudy York smacked one of Feller's pitches for a two-run homer, the diamond looked like a vegetable plate...
...feel, however, that we should pay a little attention to your reference to the Dictionary of American Biography and its statement referring to the number of Joseph Smith's alleged plural wives. No sensible person will take this seriously in the light of the undisputed fact that he had no children from any such women. Even Vardis Fisher, author of Children of God, has written as late as in February of this year, that there is no proof that Joseph Smith "had any children from any except" his wife Emma...