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...deceptively mellow Mr. Grundy-who falls into Quaker "thee"-saying if he is enraged-was the uncrowned King of Lobbyists in the U. S. from McKinley days until the New Deal years. His sincere passion is for government by a Republican who will interfere in business just enough, never too much. Every tariff bill since 1897 is marked with Joe Grundy's cunning hand. In nearly every smoke-filled room that nominated a G. O. P. candidate since that day, wise, cold, realistic Mr. Grundy has sat, filling the room with smoke and influence. His role in the Party...
Bates deals brilliantly and justly with Puritanism in New England, gives most of his admiration to the radical minister Roger Williams, who founded religious liberty in Rhode Island, the radical nobleman William Penn, who brought the Quaker Colony to the New World...
Taboo in the Thomas family of Baltimore were dancing, card playing, the theatre, discussion of politics and sex, quarreling and demonstrativeness. But the Thomases, descendants of Quaker Founder George Fox, were not such strict Quakers as Grandmother Whitall: when she came visiting, they hid the piano. Under great stress one of the family taboos might be broken: Dr. Thomas made an apoplectic exception to denounce Cleveland as too radical. When it came time to tell the children about the Facts of Life, Dr. Thomas said it was Mrs. Thomas' place to tell their four sons, and that their four...
Beautiful, dynamic Mrs. Thomas, head of as many Quaker committees as her husband, was a sympathetic, adored but firm mother. "I love you, my children," she declared, "but I do not love your faults." Her children were passionate rivals for her affection and approval. Discouraging emotionalism, she told them she would rather hold a brick than a hand. Her maternal compliment on personal appearance was high praise: "Thee will pass in a crowd...
Less picturesque than such better known family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...