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...questioned the usefulness of an upper house filled with legislators "not necessarily fitted to serve in Parliament." Soon afterward, demanding the admission of women to the clergy, he turned his barbs against England's men of the cloth, declaring that "it can no longer be presumed that a parson will even be respected as a man, let alone revered as a priest." More recently, Altrincham's ire was directed against Tory Anthony Eden's policy on Suez...
Battle Hymn (Universal-International) pictures the Korean war as a sort of Sunday-school outing at which some of the boys got a little out of hand. The hero (Rock Hudson) is Colonel Dean Hess, an Ohio parson (Disciples of Christ) who in real life flew 62 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II, then rejoined the Air Force when the Korean war broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding...
...last the dream came true, he found it more nearly a nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen...
Relative to your article on Pabst and the parson [Oct. 17]: beer is not the drink of moderation but the drink of special privilege. The whisky drunk goes to jail; the beer drunk goes free. The whisky drinker pays excessive taxes; the beer drinker pays almost none. Beer is respectable, and can be advertised on television; whiskey is too evil to be mentioned on this medium. Why not face it? If whisky is bad, beer is bad; if beer is good, then whisky is good...
Lost Sheep. On another occasion Preacher Prescott averts crisis with sage humor. Facing the task of laying to rest a lost sheep who, by the parson's own count, had smashed every one of the Ten Commandments, Preacher Prescott stands up to deliver a funeral oration over the blackened soul, suddenly bangs shut his Bible and declaims: "Brothers and Sisters, you knowed Charlie. I knowed Charlie. Let's bury him." And so they...