Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service; no officer would relish making such an impression. It was an expression of thought on the part of one man during the Boston Police Strike, when he did not know that this particular motorcycle cop was a clergyman, likewise, and indicated his surprise in finding a parson armed with a .45 and doing that job. Second, while true that I have not had the honor to meet the First Citizen of this country and the most distinguished parishioner at St. Thomas' Church, you are quite in error when you state that the choice of Rector was made...
...with it." Son Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
...Streck became known unofficially as the "Diplomatic Pastor." He was all set to officiate, and the U. S. Embassy servants were set for the most lavish party since U. S. Ambassador Bullitt was transferred from Moscow to Paris (TIME, Sept. 7), when in the dead of night last week Parson Streck "disappeared...
...Vincent Sheean (Personal History), Walter Duranty (I Write As I Please), John Gunther (Inside Europe), George Slocombe (Tumult and the Shouting), Negley Parson (Way of a Transgressor), Miles Vaughn (Covering the Far East...
Except for Parson Prang, the political characterizations are weak. The none too obvious but nevertheless pertinent implications about the present administration have, of course, been totally disregarded, much to the detriment of the story. And then, too, the dramatic presentation makes overmuch of a buffoon of "Buzz" Windrip...