Word: quakerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiqhter Turned Quaker. But Ned Coxere had no patriotic scruples against fighting for whichever flag he chanced to be sailing under. He fought now for King, now for Parliament, in the English Civil War. When he was a prisoner aboard a Spanish man o' war, one of his captors "looks down the scuttle where we were and called in Spanish to us 'There is good news: Cromwell is dead. There is a great feast in hell.' This . . . was good news to the Spaniards, for he made them cheap." On another voyage, from the Barbary Coast, his ship...
Ginger, or Dolly, is forced by her Quaker father into a loveless marriage. When her husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
Greyhound Bus Lines expect to be able to handle everyone who needs transportation, an official announced, adding that there was "no unusual demand." The Quaker City Bus Company, which runs one bus a day to New York, still has seats, and the MacKenzie Coach Lines also has accomodations available...
Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government...
...Quaker with faith in her work, Mrs. Vining refuses to let inconveniences like these get her down. When the cold got too much for her, she sent home for ski boots. Though she is cut off from U.S. Army post exchanges and can't even get her hair done there, Mrs. Vining says: "I'm doing very well." She is grateful to her Japanese hosts for a ten-room house, a 1940 Plymouth, a secretary and a chauffeur...