Word: parson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annie Wood Besant (rhymes with either incessant or pleasant) is an old woman (83) popularly associated with occult ritual and mystic robes. She is still president of the Theosophical Society, but perhaps you didn't realize she was once a parson's wife, an atheist, a Socialist, a beautiful spellbinder...
...Powys writes about; you will certainly never run into a whole village of them. His Sexton Truggins, Farmer Beerfields, Dame Tastes are symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint...
...office. Immediately Governor Cross began his inaugural address in which he aggressively pleaded for a repeal of the 18th Amendment, larger veto powers, increased authority for the Public Utilities Commission. Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson...
...remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology of the sport as you could wish...
...life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast, he has done much to further the sport in the U. S., where he says it is "certainly on the increase." He is president of the Master of Fox Hounds Association of America...