Word: priggishly
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...cleaned up black-hearted barons, witches, giants and made England a peaceful land with "merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty stories on the way to Canterbury." Chief characters of The Ill-Made Knight are ugly, expert Lancelot (le Chevalier Mai Fet), patient, cuckolded Arthur, all-female Guinever, priggish Galahad, whom the less perfect knights loathe...
...more readily be understood. Harvard Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for defense. They want a democratic arms program, by selective conscription if necessary; not the building up of an amateur and priggish military caste which will exert a tremendous pressure for war. They want a pan-American solidarity based on democracy--not a hemisphere defense program superimposed on commercial exploitation of Latin America, a program which would inevitably throw our southern neighbors into the arms of our potential enemies. they want...
...Science can be no cloistered or fugitive thing. It cannot sit cowering in its laboratory while freedom dies. ... It must have highhearted ways and be ashamed of priggish petitions from its children to the President of this country saying that because, forsooth, they are scientists they are above the battle and addicted to the higher life. These men showed themselves in that action the gadgeteers of science."-Hot on Dr. Kennedy's smoking heels, the convention unanimously passed a resolution asking the U. S. to give "credit, supplies and armaments" to the Allies...
...motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
...solemn Whig lad, David Balfour of Shaws, 14-year-old Freddie Bartholomew may be a shade on the jackanapes side for those who want their Stevenson straight, but he fits this feckless Fox version. Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like...