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Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
...other major-leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year Indian, who has only recently stopped calling his teammates "Mister," will win 25 games this year (some...
Other members of the cast are: "Moll," Miss Shirley Bernstein; "Mrs. Mister," Miss Lillian Wolfson; "Sister Mister", Miss Francis Morrison; "Sadie," Miss Sarah Kruskall; "Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...
...Iowa Attorney-General Fred D. Everett: "They would have been wed had the pastor declared them Mister and Missus...
Looking around anxiously, Vag spied his brother at the hot dog stand, and hurried over in time to hear him say, "Gimme a dog with all the trimmins, mister." Vag didn't remember Billy's ever cating a wienie before, but after all, if he wanted to go and get sick right in public, that was his own affair. Vag propelled the kid along through the crowd toward the sideshows. The nearest one was the fat lady...