Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education, says Conant, has failed to keep pace with the changing country. The leisure class and the "cultured gentleman" are gone, but as yet the schools don't seem to realize it: "It is as though a country parson [with] a small and homogeneous congregation should suddenly find himself . . . spiritual leader of the crowd that fills the Grand Central Station...
...Girls Go, Bobby Clark's new vehicle, puts him in the novel position of husband to the first woman president, but nevertheless the show fared badly at the hands of the reviewers. Minnie and Mr. Williams is a light bit of fancy involving a Welsh parson, his fluttery wife, and a devil named Gladys. Put Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling in this situation and you have a pretty good idea of what it's all about...
...could completely live down a yarn like that, which was told to Parson Weems in 1800 by an "excellent lady." It is just such saccharine legends, overlaid with priggish nonsense, that have helped to make George Washington a forbidding figure in U.S. history. The too-well-known portraits, by Gilbert Stuart and others, haven't helped either. The frozen face of Washington that stares down on thousands of U.S. schoolkids is that of a jut-jawed old party whose cumbersome false teeth are giving him trouble...
First Down. One of the mighty had already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...