Word: puritanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred McMurray plays a hotblooded political rebel from Virginia with a price on his head and a sword in his belt, who flees north to a romance with a Puritan daughter chaffing at her restrictions. Their secret love--complete with assignations in the woods and kisses in the dark--runs up against some difficulties. Through a mistake a Salem wife becomes jealous, McMurray is kidnapped by sailors which climaxes with the conviction of Miss Colbert herself. The executioner is placing the noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake...
...embellish their horror as well as their beauty with the result that the spirit of the times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan mind is shown in a psychological light which reflects also on the more human members...
...Edgetts, not the George Apleys, that have perverted the Puritan from the sublime to the ridiculous...
...learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant's dictum: "Publish or Perish," should take new heart. They may soon discover that they have "radio appeal," and to them the future certainly...
...some high-flown and unblushing so-called debutantes camplain because their dutiful Harvard escort does not distinguish himself, or rather her, by his mode of attire, let them turn to the regula-illustrious Puritan ancestors...