Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after graduation, she worked in Stern's Department Store. Then she got a job teaching at Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next...
...Samuel Parris took the ministry of tiny Salem Village in 1689, he brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he had picked up while trading in Barbados. One of the slaves, an ageless woman named Tituba, became the darling of Salem's teen-age girls. In a stern Puritan community that shunned amusement, Tituba's stealthy demonstrations of West Indian voodoo could be wonderfully thrilling. But to children like Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail the shows also brought spasms of guilt, for they were convinced they were trafficking with the devil...
...show marks the Puritan's debut in musical comedy, and is expected to be the first in a series. Excess profits will go to Displaced Persons funds...
Winthrop scored ten runs in the first inning of the House baseball incident yesterday, and the Puritan second team scored ten runs in the rest...
...team that engages in a pitching duel with Adams is in for a fall, and that's just what happened to Winthrop. Gold Coaster mound ace Roger Davis almost matched his no-hitter of a week ago by allowing his Puritan opponents only one hit. Winthrop hurler Mel Zurier gave...