Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best and most revealing picture was The Artist Looks at Nature (lent by Chicago's Art Institute-see cut), which showed Sheeler in the daylight drawing a nighttime interior. The surrounding spring landscape was as neat and clean as a Quaker meetinghouse...
Much of the book is dull. Most of it is silly. And the publishers, having blurbed it "a Quaker Constant Nymph," hope that most readers will swarm to it like crabs to gamy bait...
Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when...
Author Jessamyn West, who is of Indiana Quaker stock herself, has collected 14 of her pleasant, nostalgic short stories in one volume. All the yarns, based on material which echoed through the author's own childhood, are about the Birdwell family-who have the Devil's own time reconciling the ways of William Penn with the general cussedness of human nature...
Terry married Fey, took her to Manhattan. When Fey became pregnant, Terry walked out on her. So Fey danced and sang in low cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...