Word: dexterousness
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...Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul, John a happy farmer who loved...
After intolerable sufferings at home the Dexters, with other Pilgrims, get away to Holland. There they stay for some ten years before they can collect sufficient money, organization and courage to cross the sea. At last, bonded to the speculative Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes...
...penetrate to the banks of the Charles. But on Soldiers Field a baseball game presents a more compromising picture, and to a younger generation whose baseball interests have dwindled in the past few years, the keen-eyed graduate recalls that golden spring afternoon twenty-five years ago when Dexter scored to beat Yale 2 to 1 in ten innings...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for the summer of 1932, Charles Dexter Scholarships: B. B. Evans, Franklin, Ohio; C. T. Harrison, Cambridge, Mass.; J. A. S. McPeek, Cambridge, Ohio; E. J. Simmons, Lawrence, Mass.; R. McK. Wiles, Truro, N. S., Canada; David Worcester, Boston, Mass., Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarships: A. B. Cleaves, Providence, R. I.; C. R. Williams, Schen- ectady, N. Y.; R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H.; Carlton Thayer Broderick Scholarships: J. H. Moses, Pleasantville, N. Y.; C. J. Roy, Wentworth, Mo.; David Kransdorff, So. Rhodesia, So. Africa...
...chief cities it visits the big show is preceded by an oldish, gentle-voiced, persuasive man named Dexter Fellows. He will walk into newspaper offices, announce that spring (or summer or autumn) and the circus are coming, then plunge into an alliterative orgy. Reporters (as did Manhattan reporters last fortnight) will write of his arrivals in such terms as these...