Word: prigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...postulated a religion of his own, which made for obscurity, immaturity, and didacticism in his poetry. As for his politics and philosophy, Shelley "never escaped from the teaching of Godwin, and I have no doubt Mrs. Shelley was also too much of a 'heavyweight!' Shelley was, in fact, a prig...
...doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the 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...
...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...
...Saturday (Paramount). With Will H. Hays to guide it, the cinema is rapidly evolving a perplexing new morality all its own. This picture, for instance, makes Randolph Scott appear to be a boor and prig because he is disgruntled when his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) tells him she has spent the night with another man (Cary Grant...
...disastrously pilfered from his sister's writing-table. Another high point comes after the Spartan initiation of Georgie Bassett, when Penrod and Sam report upon Georgie's indocility with a bereaved and Christ-like air. Georgie, the "little gentleman," has been badly over-directed in playing the bespectacled prig, with an unpleasantly forced result...