Word: parson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than ridiculous...
...Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...
After the New Deal, What? (Macmillan, $2) by Norman Thomas. To modern economic sinners the Socialist Presidential nominee, a onetime Presbyterian parson, preaches a purgatory of Fascism, a paradise of Socialism. Voters who agree with his rational analysis of current confusions may be less easily convinced than in 1932 that the Socialist ticket offers the best...
...Mississippi, Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Illinois and Robert R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., oldtimers who for years have been accustomed to make a four-year living from the profits of running each Republican campaign. Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, avoiding the worst pitfalls, chose Rev. Mr. Lacey Kirk Williams, parson of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago and president of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co.. to head the Republican Negro drive in the West. Unlike most of the other important Negroes in the 1936 campaign, who have more white blood in them than black. Republican Williams...
...purely English problem, tithes have been collected since 786 A.D., mainly to support the Church of England, farmers originally paying a tenth of their crop to the parson. Since 1836 cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn...