Word: parson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried a short review by Gavin Scott of the English film, Lease of Life, in which he makes the egregious error of saying that "no Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri," who presumably played the part of a country parson's deserving offspring...
This absurd and nonsensical statement has no basis in fact whatever, and I am morally confident that Gavin Scott has never done any empirical, field investigation of it. As a former parson in the Church of England, I can testify that I have seen many beauties of an optimum standard, sired by C. of E. Clergymen. As a matter of fact, I have one of my own and as a "lovely" I'd stack her up against any Ealing Studio bombshell.... Joseph Fletcher, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School...
...parson twelve feet high...
...easygoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, something of a Baptist himself, was totally immersed in hot water all week long by disapproving hard-shell fellow Baptists. First off, the Bessemer Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball glass, had told...
...avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some...