Word: puritanly
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...reviewing Professor Ralph Barton Perry's Puritanism and Democracy (TIME, Jan. 22), you say: "The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England...
...compelling brunette girl of the streets. When Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...
Later the Kings reviewed Ibn Saud's bodyguard of Wahabis ("Puritan" Moslems), who wear their hair braided and march in sweeping, dun-colored abaat (gowns). Then the monarchs sat down to a banquet in the sumptuous Hejaz style. The great table groaned under the weight of sweetmeats and whole barbecued sheep. In high good humor, Ibn Saud told brave tales of his youth. For hours the feasting continued, while the Wahabis made the night ring with martial songs and poems flattering the royal Egyptian guest...
Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, 66, pious, pink-cheeked, former Governor and Commander of the bomb-torn Island of Malta (until he retired in 1942), arrived in the U.S. to begin a series of lectures sponsored by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Crusading Puritan Dobbie hopes to cement U.S.-British relations...