His grandfather Arthur Rosen founded the Puritan Dress Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1910.
To my joy I can identify to the minute when it became obvious that Martha had won over the puritan and secretive prodnoses.
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.
But the thing about the annual culture war that would probably most surprise those who want to "keep the Christ in Christmas" is this: The original Puritan Protestants regarded the whole enterprise as blasphemous.
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The religious scene in the colonies ranged from the strict Puritan communities of New England to the suffocating Anglican regime of Virginia.
Some speculate that Americans, being the cultural heirs of the industrious Puritan settlers, are still gripped by a Protestant work ethic.
The biggest reported seller of shares in June was the Fidelity Puritan fund, a "balanced fund" that invests in both stocks and bonds.
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.
" 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.
It is the sense of Puritan fatalism that underscores New England life.
Perhaps this hostility is lodged in the founders' puritan soul.
The other reaches back past the founders to the nation's Puritan ancestors, and concludes that at its core America is religious.
It is worth noting both that Winthrop made the speech containing this quote to his Puritan brethren on board a ship fleeing Europe en route to Massachusetts and that the quote harkens directly to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
And now, after months of hesitation, France's prime minister, Lionel Jospin, in some respects a bit of a puritan, has decided to follow the advice of the latest ministerial commission looking into drugs: it says that alcohol, tobacco and psychotropic medicines should come under its remit too.
The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.
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.
From there, he worked in one of Puritan's factories with pattern makers and sewers, and he also learned the art of cost estimation.
New Year's Day has no very religious origin, and so can be celebrated by the most zealous secularist - but perhaps not with new year resolutions, which are a Puritan tradition of spiritual improvement.
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.
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