Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with gold-wrapped ropes made of camel's hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of the 1943 Washington social whirl. Hostesses would soon learn that as Wahhabis ("Puritan" Moslems) the two Princes can neither smoke nor drink...
Under his calm scrutiny of fact, myths small and large explode like popcorn. Mr. Myers' explosion of three U.S. myths is particularly notable: the Myth of the Puritan, the Myth of the Catholic, the Myth...
...Myth of the Puritan, dear to millions of U.S. hearts, is the belief that the Puritans were, and remain, responsible for U.S. bigotry in all its more characteristic forms. The facts, says Historian Myers, prove otherwise. In all the American colonies the general spirit was that prevalent in England. That spirit was one of rampant persecution. Quakers were hanged in Massachusetts, but they were persecuted in Virginia as well. Not only in Massachusetts but in Maryland, long famed for its religious tolerance, the penalty for inveterate blasphemy was death; and blasphemy was any doubt that the Bible was the Word...
First foreign prince to receive the degree was Prince Henry of Prussia, who was welcomed by President Eliot in a special meeting at Sanders Theatre on March 7, 1902. Stressing the "Puritan origin of the University," Eliot declared that although previously two Presidents of the United States had received the coveted LL.D., Prince Henry was the first foreigner to have this honor awarded...
John Winthrop House has lost its traditional iron grasp on the House hockey league with its defeat by the speedy sextet from Dudley Hall. The season reached the halfway mark Monday night, with the Lowell Bellboys still leading and a Puritan-Rambler tie for second...