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he behaves very paternally toward his young bride
- Handing out cash prizes he exhorted the winners paternally: "Don't make mixed marriages.
- The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an .
- New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City .