Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...said, "must have work for that man to do." After the war, McColl became a parson...
When Girls kiss without Licence from Parson & Proctor...
...busiest week since December were two footsore comedies. Both tried for laughs on the subject of bastards; neither got any. It's A Gift featured a will bequeathing a large fortune to any female in the family who produced a love child. Happily Ever After featured a parson who had performed 10,000 marriages-without ever having been ordained...
Plotted Energy. Before he donned the cloth, Boston fans got one final look at the Flying Parson in motion. He gave his schoolboy rivals handicaps up to 90 yds. in the Boston Y.M.C.A. twomile, then won going away in slow time...