Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate was divided equally among two daughters, Jessie & Helena, and one granddaughter, Barbara Hutton, whose mother, Edna Woolworth Hutton, had died...
...opera. Each time the Metropolitan mounted the work of a U. S. composer, people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow...
...clock: P. C. Henshaw defeated D. C. Warren, J. R. Peppenheimer defeated K. A. Andren, H. A. Bates defeated R. P. Bissell, R. A. Knowlton defeated T. H. Scheafe, S. C. Westervelt defeated Alan Arensberg, P. M. Schloss defeated G. V. Goulder, C. H. Brickley defeated G. A. Parson...
...mistress. Simultaneously the Salvationist has been ascertaining to his own satisfaction that his Mae means well. By the time he turns out to be the famous detective he has disposed of such of Mae's dubious companions as she has left alive. Off they go for the parson, the moral apparently being that the Lord helps those who express themselves...
...well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor...