Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corpse in the Constable's Garden" is a story frankly intended for those who like their crime in easy doses with sugar and water. Country parsons, irate squires, several drab daughters, and a handful of good-natured college lads make up the personnel. There is only one death, which is rather late in coming, and most of the 295 pages are given to the narration of family scandals, repressed emotions, and a few glimpses of what a parson's past...
...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...
With most of his friends, Oscar Wilde in particular, Parson Will was more gentle. Sympathetically he reports Oscar's attempts to reform after his release from jail; the loyalty of his great friend and literary executor, Robert ("Robbie") Ross; Wilde's gratitude at the public reception of The Ballad of Reading Gaol...
...jealousy with interest, but made the mistake of despising her rival. By a clever ruse Emily substituted herself for Amy at the wedding (they were about the same height and coloring) and to Mr. Fatigay's horror he discovered he was married to a chimpanzee! The parson would do nothing about it. Mr. Fatigay rushed off to go to the dogs; Amy showed herself in true and unattractive colors; Emily, despairing but practical, went on the stage as a dancer. Mr. Fatigay dropped lower and lower; Emily made a fortune. One day they met again, and Emily was able...
...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...