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...false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into a howling night of storm. His son Matt was a cowardly, priggish hypocrite; when Sir James Latta gave him a job in India Brodie said good riddance. Only his youngest daughter Nessie found favor in his eyes: that was because she was bright in school. Brodie drove her to study every spare minute, deviled her into a learning automaton to win the famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull Brodie | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disaster at Sea | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Don't Degenerate! | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Necaragua | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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