Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chesterton accused Shaw of the gloom of a general Puritanism, and this naturally rankled. The weakness of the Puritan, especially of the Shavian kind, is his dangerous levity and cheerfulness, the merry, practical streak which evades the ungovernable tumult of feeling. The theory that the Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more...
Frank Hernberg's passes to George Lee kept the Commuter defense spread and strengthened the Puritan running attack. Jack Manning carried the ball over from the 15 yard line early in the second quarter...
...buyers included Hotelman Abraham Sonnabend, who operates Boston's Shelton, Puritan and Somerset, Chicago's Edgewater Beach, and three other hotels. Also in the group: the Sixty Trust, one of the maze of tax-free trusts set up by Royal Little of Textron...
Perhaps the most prolific hymn writer of all was Methodism's Charles Wesley, who turned out the words of some 7,000. Hymns were an important means of spreading the Methodist doctrine of salvation for all, as opposed to the dour Puritan teaching of predestination. Wesley's most successful effort: Jesu, lover of my soul, of which Henry Ward Beecher said: "I would rather have written that hymn than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat upon the earth." Brother John Wesley, a busy hymn writer himself, issued some precepts to choirs which, thinks...
Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had met in social-welfare work...