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Las Vegas was created as the world's first experiential duty-free zone, a place dedicated to the anti-Puritan pursuit of instant gratification -- no waiting, no muss, no fuss.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retreat of Censorship Unnecessary or unseemly, or just unpleasant, what young and old may now read or see is part of the anti-Puritan revolution in American morals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four of his six brothers were in the Catholic clergy, his other kin deeply anti-Puritan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Read the pages of our historian Prescott, and you will see that the whole anti-Puritan history of America resolves itself into an awful slaughter for gold.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

That an anti-Puritan should be a romance-lover was almost a necessity.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George