Word: priggishly
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...Myron is a conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork...
...incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin her. A red-blooded Britisher, finding himself a cuckold, prepares to do the traditionally manly thing; takes wiser advice in time...
...nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that the prig was so developed by being the son of an insignificant conservative prig, by being nurtured on insignificant priggish conservatism. The basic cause of the hero's state, and of that of his ancestors and descendants, is day-dreaming...
...with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...
...shame, says Abbe Dimnet, if a man will but take an inventory of himself. Starting with a detailed, impartial inventory of all his traits a man will soon discover plenty of Good work to do. Granting U. S. Presi dent Wilson's observation, "There is no more priggish business in the world than the development of one's character," the Abbe still holds with Thomas a Kempis: "We should soon be perfect if we would only conquer one fault every year." Presi dent Wilson, though he did not know it, was talking of annexing imaginary virtues, the monk...