Word: puritans
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...virtues and pleasures of mankind. He had a feeling for tools, horses, unmistakably American landscapes, Whitmanesque humanities. He would write a word like "roots" or "bones" as though it were thrusting out of his nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators...
...century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented as well as its harshness. But, in other respects, the picture leaves little to be desired. Lars Hanson, Swedish actor, who plays opposite Lillian Gish, deserves that distinction. Scenarist Frances Marion and Director Victor Seastrom (Swedish) have contributed to the cinema a notable work...
...carried out and completed this naturally unpopular mission not only with the objective impartially of an expert, but with noble, puritan unselfishness and as a friend who understood Hungary's uphill reconstruction fight...
...Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest," by Barrett Wendell '02, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins '01, "Harvard University Hymn Book," "What Evolution Is," by G. H. Parker '87, "Mr. Secretary Walsingham...
...informed that the New Puritanism seeks by legal means to suppress corrupting agencies and to crystallize in- to laws the old ideas of our Puritan forebears. Crimes of vice, accordingly should be on a par with crimes of violence in the eyes of the law since the former so often, cause the latter...