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...Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists were the Bolsheviks of that era; their wild orgies at Nunster, and the attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...meats. Only the beautiful princess holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wine, Women and Sword | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...gigantic corporations which don't have to bother about competition," cried he, "and by whose large profits the public is misled, the common run of manufacturers in America today are in about as unhappy a condition as their fellow producers, the farmers. I challenge the statisticians to overturn that statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Chattanooga | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Boston liked This Woman Business. But then, Boston always has liked this woman business, so that its reception of the play imported from London for the Wilbur's stage is no great overturn of form. Ever since the days when Cotton Mather sent two wives to heaven with his Frendian nagging, Boston, whether she'd admit it or not, has been a matriarchy, up to the very beginning of the present Irish era; and now maybe it's Mother Machree who rules the roost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

...Marshal's rescuers sped to succor him, he, adroit, parleyed with the Nationalist mob. The soldiers came. Pilsudski saw and conquered. While the Nationalists fled, the soldiers stayed to cheer, to work themselves into a frenzy in which they demanded that Pilsudski lead them to Warsaw, overturn the Cabinet, free Poland of scalawags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Government Upset | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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