Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By Evander Berry Wall, last of the Gay Nineties dandies, who died expatriate in Monte Carlo last May after spending millions, hobnobbing with royalty, playing poker with World War I generals, bummeling from casino to racecourse, writing his lavendered memoirs (Neither Pest nor Puritan): an estate "not exceeding...
...plot centers around the attempts of Puritan Cotton Mather '78 to become president of Harvard. All his efforts are foiled, however, and a group of students and professors, by clever stratagem, prevent his election...
...second game of the evening, the high-geared Puritans completely dominated play, keeping the Deacons within their own blue line for most of the game. The first Puritan to dent the twine was LaMothe at 11:20, followed by LaCroix at 14:55 in the same period. Page and Apthorp scored less than 60 seconds apart in the fifteenth minute of the last stanza...
...first-rate. Besides, Lord Halifax had been through everything-all the way from the practice of pious imperialism as India's Viceroy, to its desperate defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil, had erased any traces of appeasement and made him one of the most unswerving workers for the eventual triumph of righteousness...
NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...