Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continuing their winning ways, the Adams basketeers trimmed a previously undefeated Puritan quintet 16 to 8 yesterday afternoon, maintaining an unbeaten record in their march toward the title...
...crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate of an essentially pure girl at the hands of an evil puritan community. Folklore, fantasy and mysticism clutter up the action, and moments of barebone tragedy give way to wobbling make-believe...
...indoor baseball league yesterday, Kirkland House just squeezed out a victory over Winthrop by a 5-4 score. Battling nip and tuck over the whole five inning route, the Deacons sent the winning tally across in the final frame when the Puritan pitcher weakened...
...death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible end at the age of 29 and at the height of his fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended...
...undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer a requirement for social success in the university...