Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor and proprietor of the "Gazette" since 1895, the Emporia Sage is world famed for his editorials. He has written a number of books, the latest of which is "Puritan in Babylon," published last year...
...Funsters in the last five seconds of an overtime thriller, came up with a basket that nosed out Winthrop. Luchansky further enlivened a close game scoring 14 of the Dunster tallies, while Clark and Peden stood out in the fast Puritan quintet...
...dress hall, dancing will be from 10 to 3 o'clock, and will be preceded by a steak dinner earlier in the evening. During the diner hour the House has provided music and entertainment for the Puritan frolickers...
...PURITAN IN BABYLON: THE STORY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE - William Allen White-Macmillan...
...year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge...