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...prig, Brigham Young founded the Salt Lake Theatre (where Maude Adams first appeared on stage, age 9 months) as one of his first creations; organized the still flourishing Young Men's & Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, whose sessions ended in dances, which were (and are) always opened with prayer. Pioneer Young wanted young Mormons to have their fun in church, not taverns...
...pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest of the British "palace...
...been an English officer's war bride. Invited for a visit by her grown daughter (whom she hasn't seen since infancy and who has been brought up a lady), she goes, intending to play the lady too. Daughter turns out to be a terrible prig, and since Mama can't even dress like a lady, let alone act like one, there's quite a todo...
...crashed because she behaved like a Moon-Goddess instead of a wife, she is about to make a second marriage (with the wrong man) in the same holier-than-thou manner. On the eve of the wedding, various well-wishers file by to tell her what an impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine Spy and of "brief, bluff, belligerent" Dime) to queer the marriage, convert the girl and be converted in turn. In the course of a little drunken midnight swimming...
Summing up in Science, Dr. Gregory noted that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...