Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting's triple crown: the Puritan, Astor and King's Cups. A shrewd lawyer and financier, he raised Harvard's investments from $13 million to $120 million in 30 years as treasurer, made his alma mater the most heavily endowed university...
...Runaway Puritan." After catching her in flagrante delicto in the doll house, Stephen Monk walks out on his wife Jane and into an oncoming truck. While he convalesces at the home of his Quaker foster-aunt outside Philadelphia, his whole life flashbacks before his eyes...
...world's standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes...
...find smiling Anglican Young's publication like no parish paper they ever saw before; it is crammed with up-to-the-minute movie reviews, theater chitchat and interviews with Hollywood stars, usually illustrated by photographs of the star and Interviewer Young. The advertising columns carry out the un-Puritan atmosphere with ads for beer and ale ("Guinness for Strength...
...bomb . . . The religious tone of the article was pleasantly surprising, and points to the trouble we seem to be in today ... It may be that the ultimate destiny of man is fast being revealed . . If today's renaissance of religious feeling becomes grounded in Yankee Puritan ideals and faith, then we have every good reason to believe we will come through this vale victorious . . . R. DUDLEY BENNET New Haven, Conn...