Word: parsonical
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...written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...
...play the British, having captured a New Hampshire town, decide to hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
Francis C. Parson...
...contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...