Word: parson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personally offered the Penney home to Mr. Hoover as a vacation spot. This generosity was undoubtedly stimulated by the admiration of like for like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper...
Churches were found closed for want of money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved...
Daily the women gather at the pump to fetch water-and to discuss the myriad affairs of the small town, for in a town where only Blacksmith Carlsen and the Postmaster are religious, there is plenty to discuss. The parson may be busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm...
Post graduate work brought Parson Faunce an A. M. in 1883, D. D. in 1897, LL.D. from Baylor in 1904. During all this time he held many jobs?but all within cloistered quads or the protecting arms of the Church. He taught mathematics at Brown, led erring sinners back to the Baptist fold in Springfield, Mass., New York, and Harvard. In 1899 he became Presi- dent of Brown & Professor of Moral & Intellectual Philosophy. His classes in Moral & Intellectual Philosophy were small but his Presidency was adequate...