Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin, slim, bespectacled head of the United Automobile Workers, is a preacher by training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could...
When in 1912 a crusading parson, George R. Lunn, was elected mayor of Schenectady on a Socialist platform, he offered the job of secretary to young Mr. Lippmann. Lippmann accepted, found a few months of practical politics plenty, retired to the Maine woods to write his first book, A Preface to Politics. The book attracted the attention of the late Herbert Croly, then cogitating (with the late financier Willard Straight's backing) a U. S. liberal weekly. Croly wrote to Lippmann, urging him to sign up. When the first issue of the New Republic appeared (1914) 25-year...
...Fall River Line, on the old Fall River Line, I fell for Susie's line of talk, and Susie fell for mine; Then we fell in with a parson, and he tied us tight as twine, But I wish, oh Lord! I fell overboard, On the old Fall River Line. One day last week the 426-ft. Priscilla, one of the matriarchs of the Fall River Line (water wheels and feathering buckets, double-inclined compound engine, 95-inch cylinders and eleven-foot stroke) moved with stateliness up New York's East River, as if ignoring the ignominious fact...
...Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London...
...thin book, and one wishes it were even thinner, for Mr. Parson's verse sometimes betrays another characteristic of young men's verse: an ineptitude with, and reliance upon, adjectives. Yet his average is high, and his best poems are those that are consistently good; his unevenness is confined mostly to the shorter lyrics. He is at his best in the sonnet -- there are a dozen that are really good...