Word: parson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With respect to dictatory autocracy and New Deal democracy, it is not always clear where "the parson leaves off and the pew-rent begins" ; I beg to contribute for current circulation: "ipsedictatorial" (or-"dictatory") and "demautocratic" (or -"cracy...
...Forgotten Man's friend when Franklin Roosevelt wore short pants. Like John Llewellyn Lewis, he is a Welsh miner's son. He dug coal, aged 9, in the pits of Pennsylvania. A Sunday school teacher taught him to read. A parson and a lawyer helped him get learning and law, at night. He settled and practiced in Cumberland, a western Maryland mining town. He reached Congress...
...Foursquare Gospel Church in Cleveland one day last week stood Clifton Hoffman, 23, and Florence Brinkman, 21. Facing them was a chub-cheeked, eight-year-old boy, dressed up like a minister. No masquerading moppet but a real ordained parson, the Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...
THEY TALKED OF POISON - March Everymay-Macmillan ($2). At a meeting of a crime seminar in a university near Baltimore a dog dies of strychnine, and the deaths of a parson and his daughter (from different causes) follow. Long-winded but literate...
...every priest, parson and rabbi knows, there is more than one way to fill a church. The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery knows several. Founded more than three years ago, this committee has sponsored Loyalty Days every autumn with the object of filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood...