Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
Grounds. In Chicago, Frieda Orlowsky won a divorce when she explained that her husband's Army poker experiences had soured him on all card games, ruined their pleasant evenings of pinochle. In Los Angeles, Marie C. Bauman, calling an end to her 50-year marriage, complained that her parson-husband had abandoned his pulpit to play the ponies with his own "mathematical and scientific method...
Return Ticket. In River Edge, N.J., a policeman wrote the Rev. Walter J. Poynton a ticket, was forced to admit that he didn't have his own license with him, meekly accepted a ticket himself when the parson called another...
...Edward Parson, Boston lawyer and member of the Zionist Labor Organization, and Ghassan Tweinty 1G, will represent the Jewish and Arab points of view respectively in tonight's discussions...
...Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...