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...Rothenstein autobiography contains many a Rothenstein portrait, innumerable anecdotes of his famed friends. Immaculate James McNeill Whistler always called him "Parson." Rothenstein's frantic efforts to keep Verlaine sober at Oxford are fully described. Walter Pater was grievously hurt at Parson Will's drawing of him, asked his friends privately "Do I look like a Barbary...
...House Beautiful is a new offering by Channing Pollock, the Upton Sinclair of the stage. Incorrigibly didactic, Mr. Pollock is not only a playwright, but a poet and parson as well. Like his other plays (The Fool, The Enemy, Mr. Money-penny), The House Beautiful is packed with homilies, but in presenting them Preacher Pollock has stretched his imagination to the limit, as if he realized that he must keep up with the experimental work of the younger boys of the theatre. Hence his play-against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy-makes use of gramophonic...
Annie Wood Besant (rhymes with either incessant or pleasant) is an old woman (83) popularly associated with occult ritual and mystic robes. She is still president of the Theosophical Society, but perhaps you didn't realize she was once a parson's wife, an atheist, a Socialist, a beautiful spellbinder...
...Powys writes about; you will certainly never run into a whole village of them. His Sexton Truggins, Farmer Beerfields, Dame Tastes are symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint...
...office. Immediately Governor Cross began his inaugural address in which he aggressively pleaded for a repeal of the 18th Amendment, larger veto powers, increased authority for the Public Utilities Commission. Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson...