Word: parson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parson Stubbs had passed the hat before Speaker Byrns mustered up sufficient hardheartedness to point out that it was strictly against the House rules to take up a collection on the floor. By that time, though, Representative Dunn had $44 for the Parkers, had dealt a solid rebuke to Washington's local relief authorities...
...white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing at the Union Baptist Church. At 8 she was billed as "The Baby Contralto," sang Sing Me to Sleep with her dark, buxom aunt. The Negro parson was Marian Anderson's first critic. Said he: "It is amazing that so much voice can come from such a very small person...
Readers who had any doubt whatever that James Gould Cozzens was a professional writer in the best sense, last week had their doubts finally dispelled. His latest novel, Men and Brethren, is a highly interesting, racy book about faith and works, with a faithful, hard-working parson as its protagonist. And Author Cozzens has written it "straight," with no satire, as little horseplay as possible...
Woolworths, returned to the U. S. as Woolworth vice president and treasurer. In June 1932 he became Woolworth president, succeeding Hubert Templeton Parson...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...