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...comes as a shock that a segment of the public . . . [is] campaigning noisily against universal training. . . . Okay, mother. Okay, professor. Okay, parson. But are you willing to take the consequences, if you lead us into World...
...territory was named Rhodesia, in honor of the man who had planned its conquest. Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...said, "must have work for that man to do." After the war, McColl became a parson...
When Girls kiss without Licence from Parson & Proctor...