Word: prigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that he was the chief of the Powers that be gave to this principle, in his eyes, a luminous self-evidence which it might otherwise...
Born in Madison, Wis., Author Braley was, he says, "a fat and rather repulsive baby." His father was a judge and politician with a secret ambition to write, mostly about Shakespeare. Young Berton was a prig until, after his father's death, he had to leave school and spend two years in a factory. At 18 he sold his first piece of verse to Judge for $3. After working his way through the University of Wisconsin, writing for college papers and holding down odd jobs, he began his career on a Butte, Mont. newspaper. When, after four years there...
...most of "Viccie's" family, but dear mother is ill. Helen meets the in-laws and suggests she and Victor buy some flowers for the dear thing. "Mom" is not unlike the mother in "The Silver Cord." She faints conveniently, dislikes her son's wife and is a repulsive prig. Not having seen the play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places it seems to lack a swiftness of touch usually attained on the stage, and the debonair Montgomery...
...many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with a virago wife, threatened more & more by the insanity that finally...
...choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually...