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  • Rea's indictment is the first time any of the alleged shooters has even been implicated in Pappa's murder, let alone charged with the crime.

    Jerry Capeci: Bonanno Family Wiseguy Nabbed in 30-Year-Old Mob Rubout Jerry Capeci 2010

  • My one and half year son, said "Pappa" and kissed him:

    Pee Poo Pee 2009

  • So it was good business all around for "Pappa" Serens.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • 'Pappa' Mikko's lap again, and in a few minutes he began to tell them some more of his wonderful stories.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • The children had enough to do to watch 'Pappa' Mikko's face and listen to the wonderful tales, and Mother Stina was busy with some sewing -- she couldn't spin because the noise of the wheel would have drowned Father Mikko's voice.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Wainamoinen, and little Antero asked 'Pappa' Mikko what they had had to eat at the wedding -- he was rather more deeply interested in things to eat than anything else -- so Father Mikko continued, after he had rested a while.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Later on, as, at the order of the not ill-natured but very frowzy Boer commandant, I was gloomily taking off the saucy warm spotted waistcoat knitted for me by my sister, I noticed our friends of the previous evening in very animated and friendly conversation with the burghers, and "Pappa" was, curiously enough, carrying a rifle and bandolier and my new field-glasses.

    The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909

  • Rhoda pronounced the words "Pappa," and "Mamma," as is done in America to this day.

    The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Sources say Rea, now 58, and Enrico (Red Hot) Gentile, a Manhattan-based hitman who had gotten out of Attica five years earlier, allegedly got to the restaurant about 20 minutes before Pappa did.

    Jerry Capeci: Bonanno Family Wiseguy Nabbed in 30-Year-Old Mob Rubout Jerry Capeci 2010

  • He beat the Pappa murder rap, however, when he dropped dead of a heart attack on First Avenue in Manhattan, shortly after walking out of a well known wiseguy hangout, but otherwise fine bakery, DeRobertis Pastry Shop in 2003, at age 68.

    Jerry Capeci: Bonanno Family Wiseguy Nabbed in 30-Year-Old Mob Rubout Jerry Capeci 2010

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