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...Robert Owen, Fourier, were really trying to create a more Christian life. With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...Author. Constance Robertson, who has written one other novel, Enchanted Avenue and a mystery, Five Fated Letters (under the pseudonym Dana Scott), was born in the house of her grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes, founder of famed Oneida Community (1842 to 1880), one of whose concerns was breeding the Superman; consequently it was kicked around by public opinion till it was changed to a corporation which now manufactures silverware. The Templers are as authentic as a composite photograph. Everything in Seek-No-Further but the happy ending actually happened in one of the two dozen or so 19th Century communities which...
...traps a year, grossed annually as much as $400,000. But the fur business in all its branches was hit hard by Depression. Last year he sold out to his only big competitor, Animal Trap Co. of Lititz, Pa., which began as an enterprise of the celebrated Oneida Community...
...Heaven); Perfectionist (Methodist and "Holiness" groups which hold that moral perfection should be the goal of Christians); Charismatic (Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" sects whose members consider themselves endowed with special charismata or gifts, such as the gift of speaking in "unknown tongues"); Communistic (the almost-defunct Shakers, the defunct Oneida Community, the still-existing Church Triumphant of Estero. Fla., whose members believe that the world is a hollow ball, with men living inside it) ; Legalistic (Old Catholics, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists and other churches which stress certain rules, practices, objective "things" as essentials of true religion...
...Twins Sharp on grounds that they married before their divorces were final, announced they would meet Twins Sebring in Bremerton, Wash., when they returned from duty in Honolulu, would remarry Twins Sebring, would set out on twin honeymoons to Twins Sebring's and Twins Coats' home town Oneida...