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...while away the time he whets his scythe, courts the womenfolk of Dodder who find him highly aphrodisiac. Parson Hayhoe's wife, who has lost her only child, lets him love her, as does crazy Sarah Bridle. Best of all he loves Joe Bridle's truelove Susie Dawes. But Susie's depraved father will not let her go with Bridle or with Death: he aims to sell her to rich, sadistic Farmer Mere. After the wedding ceremony Joe Bridle in love's despair hands the deadly parchment back to Death...
...rich man dies. He is not celebrated for piety. Indeed he may frequently have broken the third Commandment (swearing), or the fourth (breaking the Sabbath), or the seventh (adultery), or the eighth (stealing), or the tenth (covetousness). Nevertheless his family desires a fine funeral, complete with eulogy. So the parson polishes up a sonorous speech, hunts for apt quotations...
...charitable inclination which every Christian minister will probably feel upon reading this story will be one of sympathy for the poor parson who was under the professional necessity of delivering some kind of eulogy on such an occasion. He will remember similar predicaments in which he has found himself on occasion, and will wonder why, since the service occurred in an Episcopal church, the rector did not seek asylum in the superior custom of the Anglican communion of refraining from any kind of eulogy. ... If a saint has died a eulogy is useless, if a sinner a eulogy is impossible...
...years the "five-and-ten-cent store" has occupied a position of increasing stability in the merchandising scheme, hence has figured in joke and song ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10? Store"). But last week Hubert Templeton Parson, president of F. W. Woolworth Co., said that his red-fronted emporiums may become "5, 10 & 20? Stores." The experiment will be tried first in the West and South, then, if successful, will become permanent policy in the 1,905 Woolworth stores. Reason for the change was thought to be that lower commodity prices make available...
...World War, was the American Legion's chaplain in 1923-24. As head of the National Guard, he supervised 51 state and territorial organizations.* During his two years in office. Major General Everson flew more than 100,000 mi. throughout the land, earned the name of Flying Parson. He had held pastorates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky...