Word: priggishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish, and Miss Tucker spreads her thick pink arms to embrace both of them, it is apparent that Honky Tank is one more grotesque souvenir of the earliest manner...
From a prissy little man such words would sound insufferably priggish. From Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-who looks like the Great Buddha suddenly galvanized into something strenuous and vital-the command "Don't degenerate!" rang with significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...
Leeds of Germantown, Pa., writes in an especially priggish view. I can visualize little Leeds happy at the thought that writing you was a "good deed" (or is their phrase "good turn"?). At any rate let us hear from little Leeds as to whether he charged up his letter as a "turn...
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...fear I cannot aid in the circulation of any periodical which bows to the demands of 100% "respectability" plus priggish intolerance in so supinely a manner. Our Gods are of different clays...