Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the 10,000 dealers sat helpless ; helpless sat middle-sized Homer Martin, the spectacled "Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Missouri),* loud-lunged chief of the American Federation of Labor...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...
...Negley Parson, lately in South Africa for the London Daily Mail, was recuperating from an operation in a Copenhagen hospital. Eventually he planned to go to Moscow. Walter Duranty was in Rome. John Gunther had sailed from London, bound for Manhattan to be with his ailing wife. All three had signed to write for the North American Newspaper Alliance; and Duranty hoped he would be among the ten U. S. correspondents to be picked by the British Army Council for front-line service in France...