Word: prigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
...financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain...
...Then he got a job teaching, first at his old college in Salt Lake City, then in Manhattan. All this time Athene was spiritually holding his head, watching him spit out the bile. Eventually he regurgitated the cause of all the trouble: he had been an idealist, a blind prig. From then on he was ready to try any dish to find his proper diet...
...play for his fellows. He accompanies his father on a cruise because he thinks he should and actually enjoys himself somewhat, but refuses to spend additional time with his father in the Mediterranean because it is his duty to return to America to college. But Oliver is no mere prig, no stuffed-shirt; it is his heart as well as his mind which calls him to duty, and it is by virtue of this extremely vivid impression of his character that Santayana shows his real insight. It would have been easy to draw a caricature of Oliver--not one novelist...
...oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight in the teeth...