Word: puritanize
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...reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when he, a Puritan, was invited to assist at the elevation of a Cuban archbishop...
...Puritan spirit is usually associated with hard and bare surroundings. Hence Kansas towns are plain, the grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
Nevertheless, in spite of these simplicities, it should be understood that Kansas is neither old-fashioned nor backward. Like the Puritan of New England, he is ultra-modern in politics and some of the most ingenious laws protecting debtor from creditor emanate from the legislature at Topeka. Nor is humor entirely lacking in the sunflower state as is proven by two well known Kansans, Mr. William Allen White, and Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle...
...White House confidant should be repudiated, from whatever true cause, by the President's home state, the possibilities are infinite. To the country at large, it will appear as a rebuke to the President himself. Would the halo of staunch Puritan piety and common sense fall away from Mr. Coolidge in the eyes of fickle politicians? Would his hopes for a third term fade? These are interesting speculations. If shorn of his home support, the President should remain in the saddle, he would afford an instance of party control remarkable in American history The coming campaign which is fraught with...
...obtain a knowledge of the subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...