Word: precieux
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...travelog of Oscar Wild's voyages among the barbarians of Eastern America is very choice, and give short mention to the time when the precieux lecture in Boston was broken up by fifty Phillistines from Harvard who charged the theatre, all dressed in purple velvet and yellow lilies. Oscar took it very nicely...
...livening injection of aesthetic values the student concentrating merely on style development, degenerates into an animated almanac of precise and inconsequential facts; without the control of style, the aesthete intent on whetting his own sensibilities sinks into a condition of hazy introversion, characterized by flowing hair and a precieux smirk. In order that students may derive the greatest possible benefit from the objective view, the Fine Arts Department might look with profit to the example of History and Literature. A new department, History and Fine Arts, is not inconceivable. At present it is a crying need...
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