Word: puritans
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Eliot's Trope kicked over the Winthrop goal line and the Puritan's returned it to the 20-yard stripe. Win- throp fumbling marred the third period...
...vegetarianism put Childs on the skids. In 1929, after a grim fight for proxy control. Chairman Childs was forced out and General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign to "Eat all you can for 60?." After an unsuccessful trial this also was dropped like a hot pancake. Really successful, however, was tie next major...
...against the challenger this summer, it will be the third in a row not only for Skipper Vanderbilt but also for Ranger's head designer, William Starling Burgess. If his boat defends the Cup successfully, Starling Burgess will equal the record made by his father, Edward Burgess, whose Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer defended the Cup in 1885, 1886 and 1887 and made him the most famed yacht designer...
Talked of "Last Puritan...
...lunch yesterday we got talking about The Last Puritan. I was interested in hearing that Peter Alden in the novel was in many ways like Mr. Santayana's father; and though it is not true, as many have thought, that Santayana tried to reveal his own personality through Oliver and Mario still they do reflect a bit of his general character. It seems to me that Mr. Santayana, like Oliver, is deeply moral. Daub his philosophy what you will, there is always the moral flavor. It is this morality that bridges his materialism with his mysticism. But this...