Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire program is planned to commemorate the establishment in this country of constitutional government, a form imported from England by the Puritan fathers when they first settled in America. In order to present the most striking program possible, a committee appointed by the Governor has been working many months preparing the report which last night was filed with the Clerk of the Legislature. In addition to Mr. Parker, who is chairman of the commission, Harvard men who have been assisting on the committee are Allan Forbes '97, Wellington Wells '90, and F. B. Winthrop '91. Dr. Henry Colt, also...
Mayor Quinn of Cambridge has not yet made public his decision on whether he would issue a permit for the presentation of the "Strange Interlude" in Cambridge or not, but it is expected that the Cambridge authorities would be considerably more liberal-minded than the notoriously puritan officials of Boston town. When interviewed last night, Mayor Quinn declined to issue any statement...
...Eastern Europe unusual quiet is a sure sign of political activity. Early last week the streets of Bucharest were still as a Puritan Sabbath. Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...
...have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees where women predominate, the manager may quite naturally be expected to conclude that his production is not morally offensive to the community. . . . Last...
...knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company...