Word: quakerish
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Into A Sleep of Prisoners, Quakerish Playwright Fry has done his earnest best to pack a van load of meaning about the state of modern man. Four prisoners of an unidentified war are locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...
...Quaker faith. They resent the implication that Quakers drink; they aren't supposed to. The Society is displeased that the Old Quaker trademark is a picture of William Penn, standard-bearer of Quakerism in America; that some Schenley advertisements have featured a photograph of a whiskey drinker in Quakerish dress. Last week, as mad as members of a mild, tolerant sect can be, some Friends proposed to do something about the whiskey...
Friends. In much the same tradition, 31 years later, nearby Swarthmore College was founded by the Hicksite branch of the Quakers. Both colleges have remained small, progressive, Quakerish in independence but non-parochial. Less than half of Haverford's 44 professors and less than 17% of its 300 students are Quakers. In 1931 the Haverford charter was amended to admit non-Quakers to the Board of Managers. But Haverford still conducts Fifth-Day Meetings on Thursdays and last week's celebration included a quiet Sunday Friends' Meeting...
...early "trust" forming days; Philadelphia's Edward T. Stotesbury, a drummer boy in the Civil War whom the present generation recollects as a socialite yachtsman; and Horatio G. Lloyd who leads a homey life in recent years, has specialized as Welfare Commissioner of Philadelphia and treasurer of Quakerish Haverford at a salary of $1 a year...
...quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares: "I'm Wet, damned...