Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither...
Grant Wood was born in 1892 in Anamosa, Iowa, site of Iowa's best known Reformatory. His family was rigidly Quaker. His first studio was a hiding place under the red checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period...
When the sense of the two Yearly Meetings, Orthodox and Hicksite, had been taken by their respective clerks, these two largest U. S. Quaker societies (91,326 and 16,105 members) were well on the way toward healing a schism, that had parted them for 108 years...
Hicksite Friends came into being when Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer and itinerant preacher, presumed to dabble in Unitarianism, question the divinity of Christ. He was ousted from the Society of Friends, founded one of his own, gave his name to Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney...
Others of "The Eight" may have been better artists but none, including the late, lusty George Luks, had a more adventurous life than Everett Shinn. A fat little Quaker boy in Woodstown, N. J., he was known as "Pud" (pudding) to his contemporaries. Now 58, "Pud" Shinn is as wiry as a fox terrier, is better known...