Word: prig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon what authority do you say that Mrs. Medill McCormick thought Mrs. Nicholas Longworth a "harurn scarum" and that Mrs. Longworth thought Mrs. McCormick a "prig...
Said Mrs. McCormick in an interview published in Ladies Home Journal last March: "I thought she [Alice] was a harum scarum. She thought I was a prig. She had burst upon the world as Princess Alice. I was a hardworking young woman in my father's office at the Senate. . . .-ED. Not Charles...
...Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred other matters. Uncertainty makes him surly and surliness alienates his educated children, hastening their departure and his decline from peasant-bourgeois hardheadedness. One turns out an indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins the revolutionaries. They are, as Pyotr was, boys without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear...
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...