Word: parson
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...26TH ISSUE: A LITTLE HISTORICAL RESEARCH WILL REVEAL THAT PARSON WEEMS IS A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA...
...Grant Wood's famed picture of him, Parson Weems peeps from behind a curtain as George Washington admits he chopped down the cherry tree. His friends would never recognize egg-bald George Dinsmore Stoddard as the parson; Grant Wood put a wig on him when he posed...
Also in Los Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...
...congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...