Word: puritanize
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...After two hours and a quarter, Preacher Vhitelock said: "Let us pray." His listeners professed not to have been bored. To them the service was a notable event, the 13th annual Two-Hour Sermon, which Baptist Whitelock had introduced in Chelsea as a revival from Puritan times...
...addition to the main biographical thread, Professor Brinton has dropped numerous little side-remarks--bits of sparkling philosophy and good humor--that make his work an altogether pleasing account. He seems to have written his book with an impish smile for his Puritan readers...
...social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent...
...dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream of operas and sports, of Gilbert and rows of men in blue coats...
...some Jews. But most of those with whom he has associated closely during four years at Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed God's judgment...