Word: parsonical
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Churches were found closed for want of money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved...
Daily the women gather at the pump to fetch water-and to discuss the myriad affairs of the small town, for in a town where only Blacksmith Carlsen and the Postmaster are religious, there is plenty to discuss. The parson may be busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm...
...undergraduate days, Parson Faunce was undistinguished. No gridiron hero he, no baseball, track, basketball contender. But he sang bass in the Glee Club. And as his share of athletic glory, he rubbed the tired biceps of his famed roommate, Southpaw Pitcher Richmond...
Post graduate work brought Parson Faunce an A. M. in 1883, D. D. in 1897, LL.D. from Baylor in 1904. During all this time he held many jobs?but all within cloistered quads or the protecting arms of the Church. He taught mathematics at Brown, led erring sinners back to the Baptist fold in Springfield, Mass., New York, and Harvard. In 1899 he became Presi- dent of Brown & Professor of Moral & Intellectual Philosophy. His classes in Moral & Intellectual Philosophy were small but his Presidency was adequate...