Word: puritanly
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...even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...
...homer with two on base by Puritan Dann Stevens gave Winthrop a 9 to 4 triumph over Kirkland...
Winthrop's fagless, hagless, jagless training program paid off yesterday as the Puritan eight took an early lead over Eliot's bulking oarsmen and held on to win by 10 feet in the last of the semifinal inter-house heats. Lowell was third by a length...
Power and experience kept Winthrop and Eliot in the undefeated ranks of the House crew competition yesterday afternoon. The Puritan eight nosed out Adams and Kirkland, finishing in 4:35, while Eliot's machine beat a dogged Leverett crew...
Kinsey is just a stuffy Puritan, and a dangerous one at that, according to the American Museum of Natural History's tart-tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home...