Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half, Winthrop coach Dwight Hyde rested his men for Thursday's Puritan-Dunster battle. Yardling wingback John Bagdasian scored on a 30-yard end run, but a goal-line pass interception in the fourth period stifled the only other freshman threat...
Over the years Stoughton housed such famous and dignified men as Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, but one night in December, 1870, its prim, Puritan Peace was shattered, when a bomb exploded under Room 17, damaging the entire north wing. The culprit was never caught...
Highwayman Zachary Howard, a Cavalier who had taken to the road during the Puritan succession, once got the great Cromwell himself in his sights, when they both stopped at the same inn. Cromwell was so impressed with Howard's feints of piety that he invited him to come to his chamber that they might say their goodnight prayer together. Howard consented; but once inside the bedroom he exchanged piety for pistols, bound, gagged and robbed the Protector. Then, says one old source, "taking the pan out of a closestool that stood in the room, which happened to be pretty...
When King Abdullah of Jordan visited Britain in 1946, Prime Minister Attlee showed him a portrait of Cromwell and remarked that in his opinion the great Puritan was a remarkable man. Sincerely shocked, Abdullah exclaimed: "But he was the man who cut off the King's head...
Nevertheless, Author Nichols now finds the old Puritan tradition doing poorly in the U.S. compared to a vigorous, transplanted Roman Catholicism. In law, education, labor unionism, social service and foreign policy, he writes, the influence of the Protestant majority shows signs of going down by default before the positive, well-organized programs of U.S. Roman Catholicism...