Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...peculiar: legs stiff, knees high, feet thrown toward the outside and brought down hard on each heel-a modified civilian goose step. He usually wore high brown shoes of English make, white shirts with starched bosoms and cuffs. His voice (deep, resonant, deliberate) and demeanor were those of a parson...
Halted last fortnight in Mexico City after Germans threatened to bomb the theatre was the showing of the anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall (TIME, Aug. 12). It freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...
...Peace Group will be led by William Hod son '42, and will consider the problems of peace and reconstruction in Europe at the conclusion of the war. The Group will work with Parson Wild, assistant professor of Government, who has taken an active interest is such work...
...Army chaplain in World War I, Parson Spence discouraged crapshooting in camp by rolling sevens himself. As an evangelist, he modernized his revival technique; instead of bringing sinners to the revival, he took the revival to them from house to house. He learned to "tell whom I was hitting by the way they looked over their shoulders to see if the family skeletons were sitting behind them...
...parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said: "Mrs. Knowles, did you ever think what might happen to her in an Iowa haystack...