Word: puritanly
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...less remarkable and may have had no little effect in preparing him for this final achievement. He is in fact the author of "The Academy Song Book". "The Abridged Academy Song Book". "The Students' Hymnal" and "The American Song Book", besides "The Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrim and Puritan". He should certainly not therefore be taken to task if his Prize Plan is, as some malevolent critics have implied, nothing but "The old sweet song...
...zealot of the Savonarola party has affianced his daughter to a fellow puritan. She is loved by a young gallant of the worldly party. The wedding is about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made...
...ratio to their possibilities, he finds that the colleges have accomplished very little. Not that the leaders such as Professor Baker here at Harvard and Thomas Wood Stevens at Carnegie Institute of Technology, are to blame. They have given their all to the work. It is a certain "Puritan disdain" which causes the universities to "dawdle". Harvard has a man who is not an impractical dreamer, but one who has achieved more in his field than anyone else. And if we look for proof? Witness the playwrights, producers, actors, scene-designers, and critics who have come out of Cambridge...
...Courtship of Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent...
...woman who desires that the President should be less Puritan and more Cavalier...