And of course, people take their inspiration from all kinds of artists, all kinds of puritan.
However puritan they are though, they do have at least part of a point.
His grandfather Arthur Rosen founded the Puritan Dress Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1910.
It was a tough time in the jeans business generally, and Puritan was faring poorly.
Several decades later, in the 1950s, Gloria Swanson pitched Puritan's Forever Young cocktail dresses.
As a Puritan fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, he was bound to a regime of sermons and chapel-going.
The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.
The other reaches back past the founders to the nation's Puritan ancestors, and concludes that at its core America is religious.
For this particular puritan, the crisis Iran faces is not existential, it is an opportunity to be seized and a trial to be welcomed.
Some speculate that Americans, being the cultural heirs of the industrious Puritan settlers, are still gripped by a Protestant work ethic.
It is the sense of Puritan fatalism that underscores New England life.
The religious scene in the colonies ranged from the strict Puritan communities of New England to the suffocating Anglican regime of Virginia.
After Puritan, Rosen spent six years as chief executive of Anne Klein.
The biggest reported seller of shares in June was the Fidelity Puritan fund, a "balanced fund" that invests in both stocks and bonds.
From there, he worked in one of Puritan's factories with pattern makers and sewers, and he also learned the art of cost estimation.
To my joy I can identify to the minute when it became obvious that Martha had won over the puritan and secretive prodnoses.
The American vacationer unable to silence his inner Puritan for those paltry 13 days a year must combine his holiday with some self-improving experience.
New York-based Deborah Berke's New England houses are intentionally minimalist a nod to the region's Puritan beginnings and the early Congregational churches of her youth.
The House of the Seven Gables was also made famous in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel, which brings to life the gloomy Puritan atmosphere of early New England.
Rick Santorum has a Google problem, a Puritan problem in the general, and his general overt fundamentalism will not grab the attention of independents.
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The Saudi state, however, is built on an implicit alliance between the ruling family and followers of a puritan version of Islam sometimes called Wahhabism.
He was a strict Puritan and acquired the nickname of "Strickland the Stinger" for the ferocity of his debating style in the House of Commons.
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Thanks partly to the puritan tradition, partly to a national suspicion of pretension, it has always been more at home with the prosaic and the dowdy.
" It was a triumph for secularism that, as Paul Leicester Ford wrote only half in jest, "should have made the true Puritan turn in his grave.
Mr Lacorne notes that although the president's speeches refer often to religion, he seldom speaks, as Reagan and America's Puritan forebears did, of America as a religious Utopia.
Perhaps this hostility is lodged in the founders' puritan soul.
Fidelity Puritan has an average holding period of about eight months, according to Morningstar, and Fidelity Dividend Growth has an average holding period of a year and a half.
After lunch, walk off the slices around the New Haven Green, built in 1638 as a central square for early puritan colonists and used today as a park and festival grounds.
"He could have been quite perturbed and he could have held a grudge, but he didn't, " says Miles Rubin, a major Puritan shareholder who still serves as trustee of Carl Rosen's estate.
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