Word: priggish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later, prison has not softened his virtue, nor lowered his priggish eyebrow. He will not have her even now. Thereupon she slaps him, and forgives him. So that is the way things happen when people love each other, as Miss Dane assures us that they...
...know much about Harvard yet," was the answer, "but if its system is as complicated as Oxford, I am certainly glad I don't. Oxford and Cambridge are so entirely different, any way, from most sorts of universities. They are institutions for making a Jolly aristocracy instead of a priggish one. Harvard, I understand, aims to make the students work, while the atmosphere of Oxford is merely to have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish...